Natural resources and cultural connections of the Red Sea
By: edited by Janet Starkey, Paul Starkey, Tony Wilkinson.
Contributors: Starkey, Janet, 1948-; Starkey, Paul, 1947-; Wilkinson, T. J.
Series: BAR international series -- 1661; Society for Arabian Studies monographs -- no. 5
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781407300979
Subjects: Ethnoarchaeology -- Red Sea Region -- Congresses.; Social archaeology -- Red Sea Region -- Congresses.; Natural resources -- Red Sea Region -- Congresses.; Red Sea -- Civilization -- Congresses.; Red Sea -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "... 'Red Sea III: natural resources and cultural conncetions of the Red Sea' was organized by the Society ofr Arabian Studies at the British Museum and held on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 october 2006"--p. 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Natural resources of the Red Sea. Environment, landscapes and archaeology of the Yemeni Tihamah / R. Neil Munro and Tony J. Wilkinson; title: The formation of a southern Red Sea seascape in the late prehistoric period: tracing cross-Red Sea culture-contact, interaction, and maritime communities along the Tihamah coastal plain, Yemen, in the third to first millennium BC / Lamya Khalidi; title: Products from the Read Sea at Petra in the medieval period / Stephan G Schmid and Jacqueline Studer; title: Continuing studies of plants and animals and their Arabic names from the Royal Danish Expedition to the Red Sea, 1761-1763 / F. Nigel Hepper; title: Coral reef conservation and the current status of reefs of the Ras Mohamed National Park in the northern Red Sea and Gulf of ʻAqabah / Steve McMellor and David J Smith; title: pt. 2. The sea: boats and navigation. How fast is fast? Technology, trade and speed under sail in the Roman Red Sea / Julian Whitewright; title: Warships in the Red Sea, an outstanding phenomenon / Sarah Arenson; title: Features of ships and boats in the Indian Ocean / Norbert Weismann; title: Decorative motifs on Red Sea boats: meaning and identity / Dionisius A. Agius; title: The Red Sea Jalbah. Local phenomenon or regional prototype? / James Edgar Taylor; title: Charting a hazardous sea / Sarah Searight; title: pt. 3. Harbours: ways oflife and cultural connections. Red Sea harbours, hinterlands and relationships in preclassical antiquity / Kenneth A. Kitchen; title: Sea port to punt: new evidence from Marsā Gawāsīs, Red Sea (Egypt) / Kathryn A. Bard, Rodolfo Fattovich and Cheryl Ward; title: The Arabægypti Ichthyophagi: cultural connections with Egypt and the maintenance of identity / Ross Iain Thomas; title: Aila and Clysma: the rise of northern ports in the Red Sea in late antiquity / Walter Ward; title: Shipwrecks, coffee and canals: the landscapes of Suez / Janet Starkey; title: pt. 4. The cultural connections of the Red Sea. What is the evidence for external trading contacts on the East African coast in the first millennium BC? / Paul J.J. Sinclair; title: The 'Arabians' of pre-Islamic Egypt / Tim Power; title: Red Sea and Indian Ocean: ports and their hinterland / Eivind Heldaas Seland; title: Bishops and traders: the role of Christianity in the Indian Ocean during the Roman Period / Roberta Tomber; title: Arabic Sources for the Ming voyages / Paul Lunde; title: From the White Sea to the Red Sea: Piri Reis and the Ottoman conquest of Egypt / Paul Starkey.