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Book SynopsisThis manuscript in its original thesis form was published by Field Research Projects of Florida in 1974. It had a very limited circulation and was basically in the form of a mimeographed edition. The version now published here represents the work for the first time as a proper publication in book form and has been revised and edited and is appropriately produced as a regular archaeological book. Fundamentally this was and remains the seminal work on the subject and was the first in its filed. It is an integral work of scholarship of permanent value. It is a work written in its own time and no attempt has been made to retrospectively interfere or change the nature of the text or its conclusions but to publish it for what it is. The work has ushered in a series of field excavations and analyses that expand upon it and amplify the information already given in the work itself. Thus one could say that this original work has had a seminal and indeed catalytic impact on the archaeology of
Table of ContentsIntroduction I The Physical Environment and History of the Area II Ecological Adaptations of Historic Times Versus Palaeoenvironmental Possibilities III History of the Investigation IV The Stone Age Settlements: The Early Regional Tradition V The Ubaid Settlements: A Process of Interaction VI The Tarut Island Settlement and the Gulf Third Millennium BC Trade Networks VII Aspects of Subsistence, Settlement and Cultural Patterns: A Theoretical Overview VIII The Analytical Perspective: A Cultural Model of Interpretation IX Summary and Conclusion
