{"product_id":"human-interaction-with-the-environment-in-the-red-sea-selected-papers-of-red-sea-project-vi-9789004326033","title":"Human Interaction with the Environment in the Red Sea: Selected Papers of Red Sea Project VI","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume contains a selection of fourteen papers presented at the Red Sea VI conference held at Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2013. It sheds light on many aspects related to the environmental and biological perspectives, history, archaeology and human culture of the Red Sea, opening the door to more interdisciplinary research in the region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors’ profiles Acknowledgements  Introduction \tDionisius A. Agius, Emad Khalil, Alun Williams and Eleanor Scerri  Part One: Environmental perspectives of the Red Sea  1.\t‘On the Red Sea the trees are of a remarkable nature’ (Pliny the Elder): The Red Sea  \tmangroves from the Greco-Roman perspective Pierre Schneider  2.\tExtreme Red Sea: Life in the Deep-Sea Anoxic Brine Lakes André Antunes  3.\tBiogeographic Provincialism shown by Afro-Arabian Mammals during the Middle  \tCenozoic: Climate Change, Red Sea Rifting and Global Eustasy K. Christopher Beard, Pauline M.C. Coster, Mustafa J. Salem, Yaowalak Chaimanee and Jean-Jacques Jaeger   4.\tBridges and barriers: The Late Pleistocene demography of the Saharo-Arabian Belt. Eleanor M.L. Scerri 5.\tWeighing the Evidence for Ancient Afro-Arabian Cultural Connections  \tthrough Neolithic Rock Art Sandra L.  Olsen 6\tTHE FARASĀN ARCHIPELAGO IN THE RED SEA CONTEXT DURING ANTIQUITY  Solène MARION DE PROCÉ   PART TWO: From harbours to historical towns  7.\tAdulis and the sea Chiara Zazzaro  8.\tThe Maritime context of Mediterranean – Red Sea – Indian Ocean trade Roman era  \tvessels of the Red Sea – critical review and new data Anna M. Kotarba-Morley  9.\t The historic towns of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Coast: Tourism Development and  \tConservation \t\tAylin Orbaşlı  10.\tThe Geographical Nature of the Red Sea Area and its Impact on the Material culture:  \tCase Study: Aqiq port Ahmed Hussein Abdelrahman Adam  11.\tFood Globalisation and the Red Sea: new evidence from the ancient ports at Quseir  al-Qadim, Egypt Marijke van der Veen and Jacob Moralesa  12\tJeddah and the India Trade in the sixteenth century: Arabian contexts and imperial  \tpolicy Andrew C.S. Peacock  13\tAncient Cultural Contact between the Somali Coast and the Arabian Peninsula seen  through a folktale Abdirachid Mohamed Abdirachid  14\tThe Potentials of Maritime Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Emad Khalil  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210691371351,"sku":"9789004326033","price":145.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/human-interaction-with-the-environment-in-the-red-sea-selected-papers-of-red-sea-project-vi-9789004326033","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}