5th International Seminar of the Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula
Organized by the NCCAL & the CEFREPA
“Material culture in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf during the Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic period”
Material culture within the Arabian Peninsula is still a growing field of research, particularly regarding the study of the artefacts dated within the end of the Sassanian empire to the Abbasid caliphs. Since the 1960s and 1970s, archaeologists have proposed numerous hypotheses for a better understanding of the exchange networks, typologies of objects and their dating. If the economic contacts along the coastlines, between the Arabian world and India or East Africa are well documented, commercial roads in the Peninsula need to be precisely defined. Material productions, such as pottery, glass, stone, metalwork, shell-work or textile, which were produced and exchanged throughout the area, would benefit from new perspectives. Beyond
the typological works, new researches focuse on chemical characterisationand function with a developing interest for their context location in domestic habitats or other types of occupations. These approches provide in particular a better understanding of the daily life of the populations around the Peninsula. The accumulation of recent data, pooled by the numerous archaeological missions, on the fields or in laboratories, allows us to a further comprehension of material culture in Arabian Peninsula, for the Late Antiquity until the beginning of the Medieval period.
This international conference represents an opportunity for researchers, working in and around the Peninsula, to present or answer many pending issues.
Whether related to matters of typology, dating and provenance of artefacts or comparisons between the uses of materials in different archaeological sites.
This gathering will allow the discussion between specialists of the different types of objects but also to propose global syntheses on the material culture.
The first day, and the morning of the second day will be dedicated to the academic lectures at the National Library of Kuwait, a workshop will take place on the afternoon of the second day at the Cefrepa and dedicated to pottery studies. This workshop will be an opportunity to explore new study themes around the archaeological artefacts from the same period and to compare the different typological approaches. A time will be reserved on the third day for a visit of the different medieval archéological sites on the island of Failaka.
PAPERS SUBMISSION
To participate in the 5th International Seminar of the Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula organized by the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters of Kuwait and the French Research Center of the Arabian Peninsula, (October 2-4, 2022, Kuwait), please provide :
• Title of paper
• A 150/300-word abstract
• Name and academic affiliation of the presenter and co-authors
Email these elements with the phrase : “Material culture in the Arabian Peninsula” written in the subject line, at :
callforpapers.materialculture@gmail.com
by June 15, 2022. Send any inquiries to the same address
