The 2010-2011 excavation season at Al Zubarah, north-west Qatar

Tobias Richter, Faisal al-Naimi, Lisa Yeomans, Michael House, Thomas Collie, Pernille Bangsgaard, Sandra Rosendahl, Paul David Wordsworth, Alan George Walmsley

Abstract

This paper briefly summarizes the results of the 2010–2011 archaeological fieldwork at the late eighteenth–twentieth-century abandoned city of al-Zubarah in north-west Qatar. The excavations in five areas inside the town, covering courtyard houses, a suq, a palatial compound, and a midden are discussed.
Original languageEnglish
Article number24
JournalProceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
Volume42
Pages (from-to)331-340
Number of pages10
ISSN0308-8421
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • al-Zubarah
  • islamic archaeology
  • pearl diving
  • pearl trade
  • urbanism

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