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About the Project

The archaeological project of Bat, Al-Zebah and Al-Ayn investigates the socio-economic developments on the Omani Peninsula during the Hafit (3200-2700 BC) and the Umm an-Nar (2700-2000 BC) periods. Thus, the project focuses on the use and function of 3rd millennium tombs, burial customs, settlements, material culture and chronology.

 

Related Publication

  • Döpper, S. 2024, Memories of tombs – Life histories of three Early Bronze Age tombs from Bat, Sultanate of Oman, in: A. Wissing – S. Lange-Weber – E. Geith – B. Glissmann – T. Köster – P. Sconzo (Hrsg.), Die Kunst des Findens. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Peter Pfälzner. marru 17, Münster, Zaphon: 361–372.
  • Döpper, S. 2021, Die Gräber von Bat und Al-Ayn und das Gebäude II in Bat, Arabia Orientalis 2, Oxford, Archaeopress.
  • Schmidt, C. 2020, Die Bestattungsgruben in Bat. Mit Beiträgen von Stefan Giese und Christian Hübner sowie Steve Zäuner, Arabia Orientalis 1, Oxford, Archaeopress; dazu der Fundekatalog Die Bestattungsgruben in Bat.
  • Döpper, S. – Schmidt, C. 2020, The Foreign Relations of Bat and Al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman, and the Role of the Oman Peninsula in the Bronze Age Gulf Trade, in: M. Jansen – M. Liehner-Jansen (eds.), Ports and Trans-Ports: Evolution and Revolution(s) in the Indian Ocean World, Proceedings of the Workshop, GUTech, March 4–6, 2019, Aachen: 123–150.
  • Deckers, K. – Döpper, S. – Schmidt, C. 2019, Vegetation, land and wood use at the sites of Bat and Al-Khashbah in Oman (fourth-third millennium BC), Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 30: 1–14.
  • Scheiblecker, M. – Schweitzer, C. – Fassbinder, J. – Böhme, M. 2018, Landscape archaeology and oldest monumental buildings in Oman - Magnetometry near the geomagnetic Equator, Virtual Archaeology, Proceedings of the International Forum held at the State Hermitage Museum, 28–30 May 2018, Saint Petersburg: 204–215.
  • Döpper, S. – Schmidt, C. 2018a, The Umm an-Nar settlement of Al-Zebah, in: S. Cleuziou – M. Tosi (eds.), In the Shadow of the Ancestors: The Prehistoric Foundation of the Early Arabian Civilization in Oman, 2nd edition, Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Sultanate of Oman: 381–384.
  • Döpper, S. – Schmidt, C. 2018b, The Umm an-Nar burial pits of the necropolis of Bat, in: S. Cleuziou – M. Tosi (eds.), In the Shadow of the Ancestors: The Prehistoric Foundation of the Early Arabian Civilization in Oman, 2nd edition, Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Sultanate of Oman: 377–380.
  • Schmidt, C. 2018a, The Umm an-Nar Settlement of Al-Zebah, in: S. Döpper (ed.), Beyond Tombs and Towers. Domestic Architecture of the Umm an-Nar Period in Eastern Arabia, Arabia Orientalis 4, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz: 71–86.
  • Schmidt, C. 2018b, Pastoral Nomadism in 3rd Millennium BC Eastern Arabia: A view from Al-Zebah in Central Oman, Paléorient 44.1: 105–118.
  • Döpper, S. (2018a), Towers and Ditches in 3rd Millennium BC Eastern Arabia – A View from Building II at Bat, Sultanate of Oman, Paléorient 44/1: 121–133.
  • Döpper, S. (2018b), Al-Zebah and its Position in the Regional Settlement Pattern of Central Inner-Oman in: S. Döpper (ed.), Beyond Tombs and Towers. Domestic Architecture of the Umm an-Nar Period in Eastern Arabia. Arabia Orientalis 4, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz: 87–96.
  • Schmidt, C. 2016, Mobile Pastoralists as Global Players: Excavations at Al-Zebah, Sultanate of Oman, in: R. A. Stucky – O. Kaelin – H.-P. Mathys (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), 9-13 June 2014, Basel, Volume 3: Reports: 689–696.
  • Schmidt, C. – Döpper, S. 2016, Umm an-Nar pottery assemblages from Bat and al-Ziba and their functional contexts, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 46: 247–261.
  • Döpper, S. – Schmidt, C. 2015, Necropoleis of Bat and Al-Ayn, The BFSA Bulletin 20: 20–21.
  • Thornton, C. P. – Schmidt, C. 2015, The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bat and Al-Ayn: Past, Present, and Future, in: Ministry of Heritage and Culture Sultanate of Oman, Proceedings of the Symposium “The Archaeological Heritage of Oman”. UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, September 7th 2012: 155–163.
  • Döpper, S. 2015, The Reuse of Tombs in the Necropolis of Bat, Sultanate of Oman, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 45: 83–92.
  • Döpper, S. – Schmidt, C. 2014a, Bericht über die Ausgrabungen 2013 und 2014 in Bat und Al-Ayn, Sultanat Oman, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 146: 55–85.
  • Döpper, S. – Schmidt, C. 2014b, Chlorite Vessels from Tomb 155 and Tomb 156 in Bat, Sultanate of Oman, in: C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky – B. Genito – B. Cerasetti (eds.), ‘My Life is like the Summer Rose’, Maurizio Tosi e l’Archeologia come modo di vivere: Papers in honour of Maurizio Tosi for his 70th birthday, BAR International Series 2690, BAR Archaeopress, Oxford: 187–192.
  • Schmidt, C., – Döpper, S. 2014, German Expedition to Bat and Al-Ayn, Sultanate of Oman: The 2010 to 2013 seasons, The Journal of Oman Studies 18: 187–230.
  • Döpper, S. 2014, On the Reuse of Early Bronze Age Tombs – the German Excavations at Bat and Al-Ayn, Sultanate of Oman, in: P. Bieliński, M. Gawlikowski, R. Koliński, D. Ławecka, A. Sołtysiak, Z. Wygnańska (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. 30 April – 4 May 2012, University of Warsaw: 57–69.
  • Döpper, S. – Schmidt, C. 2013, Bericht über die Ausgrabungen 2011 und 2012 in Bat und Al-Ayn, Sultanat Oman, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 145: 23–52.
  • Döpper, S. – Schmidt, C. 2011, Die Grabtürme der Nekropolen von Bat und Al-Ayn im Sultanat Oman. Bericht über die Vorkampagne 2010, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 143: 293–321.

Awards

Bat und Al-Ayn
Gerda Henkel Foundation
Bat and Al-Ayn
Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft