Territories, space organization, mobility and interactions in the Arabian peninsula 2 nd meeting on the archaeology of the Arabian peninsula LABEX DynamiTe / CEFAS National Council for Culture, Arts & Letters 14 th - 15 th February 2016 at the National Library of Kuwait Kuwait City Conveners: Guillaume Gernez (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Sophie Méry (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Michel Mouton (Centre Français d'archéologie et de Sciences Sociales) Shehab A. Shehab (National Council for Culture, Arts & Letters) The program ARABIA was initiated in June 2013 by Guillaume Gernez (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Sophie Méry (CNRS). After being a partner for the «Rencontres Sabéennes» in Paris (June 2013), it then took part of the LabEx DynamiTe, with the first workshop held in Nanterre in May 2014. The main aim of this 5 years program is to create links between specialists and to build a group of researchers and PhD students in ancient Arabia, focusing on topics related to the concept of territoriality. Annual workshop will take place, and a final conference (then published) is previewed in 2018. This project also intended. For this second workshop, in February 2016, the CEFAS and the National Council for Culture, Arts & Letters offer the opportunity to organize a meeting in Kuwait, with international researchers, a large part of them being directors of archaeological operations and actors of archaeology and heritage in the region, dealing with new data, new methods and recent works. The diachronic theme will be focused on «territories, settlement patterns and interactions in Arabic Peninsula», including the questions of sedentism and nomadism, from Neolithic to the eve of the Islamic period. 1
Program Day 1-14 th February 2016 Early and Late Prehistory of territories and interactions Morning session Chairman: Michel Mouton 09.30 am Frédéric Abbès Lecture: Neolithic nomadism: in between tradition and innovation 10.10 am Sophie Méry and Kévin Lidour Neolithic mobility in coastal Oman peninsula - a review 10.50 am Break 11.20 am Guillaume Gernez, Jessica Giraud and Tara Beuzen-Waller Settlement patterns in the area of Adam: from Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age 11.50 am Kimberly Williams Reuse and Disturbance: Maintenance, Reimagination, and Recreation of Ancestral Mortuary Landscapes in Bronze Age Arabia 12.40 pm Lunch Afternoon session Chairman: Shehab A. Shehab (National Council for Culture, Arts & Letters) 03.00 pm Carmen Del Cerro Mobility and interactions in al Madam plain (Sharjah Emirate) from Bronze to Iron Age 03.40 pm Break 04.10 pm Anne Benoist Space organisation in Iron Age settlement areas: a re-assessment 04.50 pm Julien Charbonnier The impact of falaj technology on the formation of oases and settlement pattern in Southeast Arabia 05.30 pm End of Day 1 20.30 pm Dinner 2
Day 2 15 th February 2016 The historic times Morning Session Chairman : Pierre Lombard 09.30 am Robert Carter Historical Interactions in the Arabian Gulf: Pearls and the Archaeology of Globalization 10.10 am Solène Marion de Procé The Wadi Matar Settlements: a millenary mobility (Farasan Islands, KSA) 10.50 am Break 11.20 am Sarah Khazindar Heritage interactions in Arabia. Urban morphology and architectural typology interactions 12.00 pm Mounir Arbach & Charly Poliakoff La gravure rupestre : une source pour l'écriture de l'histoire de l'arabie à la veille de l'islam. 12.40 pm Lunch Afternoon visit Failaka island if convenient tide timetable 3
Participants Shehab Abdelhamid Shehab Secretary General Assistant, National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, Kuwait shehab.shootingstar@gmail.com Frédéric Abbès Senior Researcher, Archéorient, CNRS, France Director of the French Archaeological expedition in Qatar frederic.abbes@mom.fr Majed. M. AlMutairi Assistant professor, University of Kuwait, Kuwait majed13@hotmail.com Abdulrahman Al-Suhaibani Permanent associated professor King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia dohaim1@hotmail.com Mounir Arbach Senior researcher, CEFAS, CNRS, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Head of the Hima project (KSA) mounirof@yahoo.fr Hasan Ashkanani Assistant professor, University of Kuwait, Kuwait dr.ashkanani@hotmail.com Anne Benoist Senior Researcher, Archéorient, CNRS, France Director of the French Archaeological Excavations at Masafi, Fujeirah anne.benoist@mom.fr Tara Beuzen-Waller Doctoral fellow, University Paris Sorbonne, France tara.beuzen@gmail.com Julie Bonnéric Archéologue, chercheur associé Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Beyrouth, Liban bonneric.julie@gmail.com Robert Carter Invited professor, University College of London, Doha, Qatar robert.carter@ucl.ac.uk Julien Charbonnier Post-doctoral fellow, Freie Universität (Excellence cluster TOPOI), Berlin, Germany sargon331@hotmail.com Carmen Del Cerro Permanent associated professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Spanish Archaeological Expedition in al-madam, UAE carmen.delcerro@uam.es 4
Guillaume Gernez Permanent associated professor, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Director of the French Archaeological Mission at Adam (Sultanate of Oman) Guillaume.Gernez@univ-paris1.fr Jessica Giraud Director of the French Archaeological Mission in the Governorate of Soulaimaniah, Iraq Giraud.jessica@gmail.com Sarah Khazindar Post-doctoral fellow University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France / University of al-ima, KSA Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sarahkhazindar@gmail.com Pierre Lombard Senior Researcher, CNRS, France / Authority of the Archaeology and Culture, Bahrain Director of the French Archaeological Mission at Qala'at al-bahrain pierre.lombard@mom.fr Solène Marion de Procé Doctoral fellow, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Co-director of the Archaeological expedition in the Farasan Islands solenemarion@gmail.com Sophie Méry Director of Research at the CNRS, France Director of the French Archaeological Mission in the UAE mission@sophie-mery.fr Michel Mouton Director of Research at the CNRS Director of the French center for Archaeology and Social Sciences, Kuwait michel.mouton@cefas.com.ye Charly Poliakoff Doctoral fellow, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Al-Hima project, KSA charly.poliakoff@gmail.com Nasser Said al-jawari Professor,Director of the Department of Archaeology Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman Kimberly Williams Temple University, Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Archaeology, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman kimberwilliams@temple.edu 5