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Human interaction with the environment in the Red Sea : selected papers of Red Sea Project VI
Title
Human interaction with the environment in the Red Sea : selected papers of Red Sea Project VI / edited by Dionisius A. Agius, Emad Khalil, Eleanor M.L. Scerri and Alun Williams.
ISBN
9789004326033
9004326030
9789004330825
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Physical Description
xv, 442 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Summary
"This volume contains a selection of fourteen papers presented at the Red Sea VI conference held at Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2013. It sheds light on many aspects related to the environmental and biological perspectives, history, archaeology and human culture of the Red Sea, opening the door to more interdisciplinary research in the region. It stimulates a new discourse on different human adaptations to, and interactions with, the environment. With contributions by Andre Antunes, K. Christopher Beard, Ahmed Hussein, Emad Khalil, Solène Marion de Procé, Abdirachid Mohamed, Ania Kotarba-Morley, Sandra Olsen, Andrew Peacock, Eleanor Scerri, Pierre Schneider, Marijke Van Der Veen and Chiara Zazzaro"--Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Red Sea Project (Conference) (6th : 2013 : Tabūk, Saudi Arabia). Human interaction with the environment in the Red Sea. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 14, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Dionisius A. Agius, Emad Khalil, Alun Williams and Eleanor Scerri
Part 1. Environmental perspectives of the Red Sea
"On the Red Sea the trees are of a remarkable nature" (Pliny the Elder) : the Red Sea mangroves from the Greco-Roman perspective / Pierre Schneider
Extreme Red Sea : life in the deep-sea anoxic brine lakes / Andre Antunes
Biogeographic provincialism shown by Afro-Arabian mammals during the Middle Cenozoic : climate change, Red Sea rifting and global eustasy / K. Christopher Beard, Pauline M.C. Coster, Mustafa J. Salem, Yaowalak Chaimanee and Jean-Jacques Jaeger
Bridges and barriers : the Late Pleistocene demography of the Saharo-Arabian belt / Eleanor M.L. Scerri
Weighing the evidence for ancient Afro-Arabian cultural connections through Neolithic rock art / Sandra L. Olsen
The Farasan Archipelago in the Red Sea context during antiquity / Solene Marion de Proce
Part 2. From harbours to historical towns
Adulis and the sea / Chiara Zazzaro
The maritime context of the trans-Mediterranean-Indian Ocean trade : critical review of Roman era vessels of the Red Sea / Anna M. Kotarba-Morley
The historic towns of Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast : tourism development and conservation / Aylin Orbasli
The geographical nature of the Red Sea area and its impact on the material culture : case study: Aqiq Port / Ahmed Hussein Abdelrahman Adam
Food globalisation and the Red Sea : new evidence from the ancient ports at Quseir, al-Qadim, Egypt / Marijke van der Veen and Jacob Morales
Jeddah and the India trade in the sixteenth century : Arabian contexts and imperial policy / Andrew C.S. Peacock
Ancient cultural contact between the Somali coast and the Arabian Peninsula seen through a folktale / Abdirachid Mohamed Abdirachid
The potentials of maritime archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia / Emad Khalil.
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