Umm an?Nar settlement pottery from Dahwa 7 (DH7), northern al?Batinah, Oman

Oman’s Diverse Society: Northern Oman

MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL VOLUME 58, NO. 1, WINTER 2004 Although the majority of Oman’s population is Arab and either Ibadi or Sunni Muslim, the country exhibits a wealth of diversity in ethnic groups and native languages. While these other groups are often small in total size, they are represented in such areas as politics and commerce in numbers disproportionate to the weight of their communities a...

The first record of southern ocean sunfish, Mola ramsayi from Northern Oman Sea, Iran

The first record of southern ocean sunfish, Mola ramsayi from Northern Oman Sea, Iran

Dating WF16: Exploring the Chronology of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Settlement in the Southern Levant

A pre-requisite for understanding the transition to the Neolithic in the Levant is the establishment of a robust chronology, most notably for the late Epi-Palaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) periods. In this contribution we undertake a dating analysis of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of WF16, southern Jordan, drawing on a sample of 46 AMS C dates. We utilise Bayesian methods to qua...

1 Path - dependence in settlement processes : explaining settlement in Northern Ireland

The recent literature on path-dependence provides a model that can be used in explanation of ethnic conflict and settlement processes. Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article ies this paper suggests that it is indeed possible to identify path-dependent patternsIt ortance , the generation of ‘endogenous’ processes of change, these. It shows how and why factors such as power, percept...