Navigated spaces, connected places
Subtitle: proceedings of Red Sea Project V : held at the University of Exeter, 16-19 September 2010
By: edited by Dionisius A. Agius ... [et al.].
Contributors: Agius, Dionisius A.; British Foundation for the Study of Arabia
Series: British Foundation for the Study of Arabia monographs -- no. 12; BAR international series -- 2346; BAR international series -- 2346.; British Foundation for the Study of Arabia monographs -- no. 12
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781407309293
Subjects: Commerce; Antiquities; Civilization; Congresses; Archaeology and history; Excavations (Archaeology); Navigation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Dhow: mastery of the Monsoon Exhibition; title: Contributors; title: pt. 1. Recollections. Travels with Machell in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean: the voyages of Thmas Machell and Jenny Balfour Paul, 1848 and 2010 / Jenny Balfour Paul; title: The last of the Aden Dhows / Antonin Besse; title: pt. 2. Early navigation and contact. Sailing the Red Sea: pharaonic voyages to punt and Min of the desert / Cheryl Ward; title: A new pharaonic harbour in Ayn Sokhna (Gulf of Suez) / Pierre Tallet; title: The southern Red Sea in the 3rd and 2nd Millennia BC: an archaeological overview / Rodolfo Fattovich; title: Nubians and the others on the Red Sea. An update on the exotic ceramic materials from the Middle Kingdom harbour of Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Red Sea, Egypt / Andrewa Manzo; title: Ancient Egyptian and allied African navigators' use of space on the Red Sea / K.A. Kitchen; title: The semiticisation of the Arabian Peninsula and the problem of its reflection in the archaeological record / Roger Blench; title: pt. 3. The sea in classical antiquity. Sacred places and beings of the Red Sea littoral societies / Oscar Nalesini; title: Crossing the Red Sea: the Nabataeans in the Egyptian Eastern Desert / Caroline Durand; title: New light on the nature of Indo-Roman trade: Roman period shipwrecks in the northern Red Sea / Lucy Blue, J.D. Hill & Ross Thomas; title: pt. 4. From the classical to the Islamic. The port of Babylon in Egypt / Peter Sheehan; title: The Liber Pontificalis and Red Sea trade of the early to mid 4th century AD / Eivind Heldaas Seland; title: The Fatimids and the Red Sea (969-1171) / David Bramoullé; title: Trade cycles and settlement patterns in the Red Sea region (CA. AD 1050-1250) / Timothy Power; title: Sailing with the Muʹallim: the technical practice of Red Sea sailing during the medieval period / Julian Whitewright; title: pt. 5. Suakin. Suakin: paradigm of a port / Michael Mallinson; title: Archaeology and archaeological and historical evidence for the trade of Suakin, Sudan / L.M.V. Smith ... [et al.]; title: Beit Khorshid Effendi: a 'trader's' house at Suakin / Jacke Phillips; title: pt. 6. People and the environment in the Red Sea region. (Dis)located spaces and mediated oppositions: monks and Bedouin in the deserts around the Red Sea / Janet C.M. Starkey; title: The integration of the Eastern Desert into the Islamic world: Beja groups in medieval Islamic geography and archaeological records / Petra Weschenfelder; title: The awareness level among students of King Abdulaziz University (Jeddah) of the institutions and issues related to the vitality, geography, and history of the Red Sea / Sadig A. Malki; title: Arabic plant names and botany in Arabic civilisation. The contribution of Peter Forsskål (1732-1763) and others / Philippe Provençal; title: Subject index.