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People in the past were always confronted with surviving remains from previous periods, and reacted to and engaged with them in varying ways. One activity through which this becomes visible is the reuse of tombs. If this reuse is an intentional reference to the past, it explicitly communicates meaning and thus cultural memory. In Eastern Arabia, however, this phenomenon received little attention in archaeological research, often having been discounted by the excavators as a disturbance to the first use of a tomb.0This book will investigate reuse of tombs from the beginning of the Early Bronze Age until the end of the Sasanian period in order to understand the underlying purposes and social context of this practice. In Eastern Arabia, where the adding of new burials to the original content of the tomb is common, such reuse might have functioned to make sense of the present, to give orientation in new situations and to help shape a cultural identity. Reuse occurred more often in the Iron Age and Samad/PIR periods than in all other periods investigated, combined. These are also times of visible social hierarchies. The resulting tensions made counter-measures that both promoted social cohesion and group identity and legitimised the role of the elites necessary. This might have been achieved through creating cultural memory by reusing old tombs.

The 2018 archaeological survey at Tawi Said, located on the edge of the Sharqiyah desert in the Sultanate of Oman, yielded close to 8,600 artifacts, the majority being pottery sherds. Two significant phases are attested by the survey's finds: the Wadi Suq period (2000-1600 BCE) and the Late Islamic period (1650-1970 CE).

In the Early Bronze Age, monumental stone and mud-brick structures known as towers appeared in Oman. This book aims to update the long-standing discussions on these towers and to assess their chronological depth of more than a millennium. The book also reassesses their possible functions in the light of recent archaeological research.

A study of the Early Bronze Age necropolises of the UNESCO world heritage sites Bat and Al-Ayn, and the monumental tower structure Building II at Bat, this volume reports on the architecture and stratigraphy, find assemblages from the excavated buildings (including pottery and small finds), along with anthropological and anthracological studies.

English Summary: In Volume 7 of the Qatna-Studien series Stephanie Dopper presents late Bronze Age pottery from areas G, DK, BU and Tombeau II in the Royal Palace of Qatna in Syria. The ceramic assemblages are presented and evaluated in great detail in numerous tables, diagrams and in a catalog of ceramic drawings. In addition to presenting the methodology applied, particular attention is paid to comparing the ceramic assemblages with each other, as well as to their functional and chronological classification. Thus far it has been assumed that the similarity of ceramic assemblages stems from them having a similar chronological position, meaning that ceramic assemblages from different localities can therefore be related to each other. This assumption is questioned on the basis of a standardized classification of more than 20,000 diagnostic pottery shards from more than 50 sites in Western Syria and the Levant. Using the extensive ceramic corpus correspondence analyses were carried out in order to determine the degree of similarity between the classified assemblages. This analysis demonstrated that within a relatively short time frame, such as the Late Bronze Age in Western Syria and the Levant, the similarities and differences between ceramic assemblages result from predominantly regional and functional rather than chronological factors. German Description: Stephanie Dopper prasentiert in Band 7 der Qatna-Studien die spatbronzezeitliche Keramik der Bereiche G, DK, BU und Tombeau II des Konigspalastes von Qatna, Syrien. In zahlreichen Tabellen, Diagrammen und einem Katalog der Keramikzeichnungen werden die Keramikassemblagen umfassend vorgestellt und detailliert ausgewertet. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei neben der Darstellung der angewandten Methodik auf dem Vergleich der Keramikassemblagen untereinander sowie auf ihrer funktionalen und chronologischen Einordnung. Bislang wurde angenommen, dass die Ahnlichkeit von Keramikassemblagen durch eine ahnliche chronologische Stellung begrundet ist und darauf aufbauend Keramikassemblagen verschiedener Fundorte miteinander in Beziehung gesetzt werden konnen. Diese Annahme wird auf der Grundlage einer einheitlichen Klassifikation von mehr als 20.000 diagnostischen Keramikscherben aus uber 50 Fundorten Westsyriens und der Levante hinterfragt. Anhand des umfassenden Keramikkorpus wurden Korrespondenzanalysen durchgefuhrt, um den Grad der Ahnlichkeit zwischen den typologisierten Assemblagen festzustellen. Dabei hat sich gezeigt, dass innerhalb eines relativ kurzen zeitlichen Rahmens wie der Spatbronzezeit Westsyriens und der Levante Ahnlichkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen Keramikassemblagen vorwiegend auf regionale und funktionale und kaum auf chronologische Aspekte zuruckzufuhren sind.

This volume presents the results of a survey conducted in 2015 and beyond in Al-Khashbah, one of the largest Early Bronze Age sites on the Omani Peninsula. Ten monumental buildings, 273 tombs and other structures from the Hafit (3100-2700 BC) and Umm an-Nar periods (2700-2000 BC) were documented here.

Indi, a creative girl with a new stepfamily, takes the blame for her stepsisters' mistake and is swept into a magical adventure when her fairy godmother appears to help her navigate costume-making, family dynamics, and an end-of-year celebration.

Cast off by her old friends, Cinderella agrees to help a new student deal with the stepsisters she will soon have, and meantime, a former friend tries to prevent Cinderella from dancing the lead in their tap recital.