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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

  • 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: 1–14
  • 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, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden: 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
  • 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. – 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. – 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
German Orient Foundation