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An Excavation of the Cave Site Mughara al-Kahf, Wādī Tanūf, Oman: Towards Understanding Human Activities of the Wādī Sūq Period

Takehiro Miki, Taichi Kuronuma, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Yasuhisa Kondo

ASOR (American Society of Overseas Research) Annual Meeting 2021 (online) ,

2021.12

Oral presentation (general), ASOR (American Society of Overseas Research)

This paper presents results of an excavation conducted between 2019 and 2020 at Mughara al-Kahf, a cave site located in Wādī Tanūf in Ad-Dākhiliyah Governorate, Oman. We found this cave site in 2017 and collected potsherds dated to the Wādī Sūq period (c. 2000-1600 B.C.E.) and a stone vessel sherd in the Umm an-Nar style (c. 2700-2000 B.C.E.). After the trial excavation conducted in 2018-19, we confirmed that the Wādī Sūq pottery was deposited in the sediment of the cave and that there was also a stone vessel sherd in the Wādī Sūq style from the surface. Although the cave usage in the Wādī Sūq period was reported in Shimal, the cave site had not been excavated, and the nature of its usage was almost completely unknown. In order to clarify the cave’s usage in the Wādī Sūq period, further excavation was conducted in 2019-20. As a result, we first identified two cultural layers and obtained 20 radiocarbon dates. The dates range from the first half of the third millennium B.C.E. to the first half of the second millennium B.C.E. Second, analysis of the pottery assemblage of this cave indicates the presence of storage jars, despite the difficulty of the location for carrying large vessels. This result implies usage of the cave as storage. We also mention a preliminary result of petrographic analysis of ceramic sherds. These findings shed new light on the mobile way of life in the Wādī Sūq period.

Mortuary Landscape and Social Mobility in Wādī Tanūf (Oman) during the 2nd and 1st Millennia B.C.E.

Taichi Kuronuma, Takehiro Miki, Yasuhisa Kondo

ASOR (American Society of Overseas Research) Annual Meeting 2021 (online) ,

2021.12

Oral presentation (general), ASOR (American Society of Overseas Research)

This paper discusses the mortuary landscape in Wādī Tanūf, Oman, through the lens of mobility and its social context in a geographically limited canyon based on the results of preliminary surveys in a cemetery presumably dating to the 2nd and 1st millennia B.C.E. The society of the Wādī Sūq period (ca. 2000–1600 B.C.E.) shifted to a nomadic lifestyle due to aridification, but the details of their mobility are still unexplained. Earlier research of this period supports mobility in the U.A.E., though few such examples have been evinced in Oman. A newly discovered multi-period cemetery in Wādī Tanūf, named WTN13, can potentially illuminate such a nomadic lifestyle. The cemetery is located on the high terrace of the wādī, and the intensive survey therein during the 2019–20 season revealed 40 tombs, classified into four types based on the well-preserved superstructure. Most seem to have originated in the Wādī Sūq period, and the others may stem from the Early Iron Age (ca. 1300–300 B.C.E.). This discovery supports a millennial-scale recurrent visitation to the canyon, but the societal contexts for the use of these limited spaces are still a matter of scientific inquiry. We tentatively assume that Wādī Tanūf was a destination for nomadic sojourns due to the absence of major occupations nearby and the limited number of tombs despite the long cemetery usage. Thus, the cemetery might have been formed during occasional nomadic visits. Such recurrent usage may indicate an ideological mortuary significance of this cemetery for prehistoric nomads.

Archaeological surveys of canyon and floodplains in the Tanūf district, Central Oman: Methodology and applications

Taichi Kuronuma, Takehiro Miki, Yasuhisa Kondo

Surveying Oman – Methods of Archaeological Exploration in Eastern Arabia (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Hybrid)) ,

2021.11

The Al-Ḥajar Mountains, which divide Northern Oman, are rich in archaeological sites. Situated in the southern piedmont of this mountain range, a canyon, ridges, and floodplains can be found in the Tanūf district in Ad-Dākhiliyah Governorate. This topographical setting is suitable for testing specific methodology. Nevertheless, survey methods for the rugged mountain range remain to be developed because of difficulties in applying the business-as-usual linear walk methods and low visibility of the features made of local stones. To develop an effective survey method in this particular topographical setting and reconstruct the diachronic transformation of archaeological landscapes, we have been working in the district since 2017. This paper presents the methods and outcomes of these surveys.

Painted Pottery Networks During the 5th Millennium BCE in the Southern Zagros

Takehiro MIKI

日本オリエント学会第63回大会 (大東文化大学（オンライン）) ,

2021.10

Oral presentation (general), 日本オリエント学会

A Study of Pottery from Rahmatabad: The Relationship between Change in Spatial Use and Pottery Change

Takehiro Miki, Lennard Schönberg, Mohammad Hossein Azizi-Kharanaghi

日本西アジア考古学会第26回大会,

2021.07

Oral presentation (general)

Development of Cultural Landscapes in the Canyon of Al-Hajar mountains: Survey and Excavation at Wādī Tanūf 2019-2020

Takehiro Miki, Taichi Kuronuma, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Yasuhisa Kondo

54th Seminar for Arabian Studies (online) ,

2021.07

Oral presentation (general)

Spatial analysis on Early Dilmun burial mounds in Bahrain using high-resolution terrain models

Akinori Uesugi, Yuji Yamaguchi, Nobuya Watanabe, Satoru Sugita, Masashi Abe, Takehiro Miki, Gregg M. Jamison

54th Seminar for Arabian Studies,

2021.07

Poster presentation

Chalcolithic World Full of Painted Pottery: Tracing Village Entanglements and Communities of Pottery Production in the 5th millennium BCE of South-Central Iran

Takehiro MIKI

12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE),

2021.04

Oral presentation (general)

Modeling the Agricultural Origins of the Urbanism in South Asia – A First Report from the Excavations at Bhando Qubo

Marco Madella, Carla Lancelotti, G. M. Veesar, Tasleem Abro, Carolina Jimenez-Arteaga, Oscar Parque, Takehiro Miki, Amin Chandio, Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Atushi Noguchi

Webinar on “Indus Civilization”,

2021.03

Oral presentation (general)

Regional characteristics of the tomb superstructures in the Middle Bronze Age Wadi Suq period in northern Oman: New insights in light of a survey in the Wadi Tanuf canyon

Taichi Kuronuma, Takehiro Miki, Yasuhisa Kondo

The British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology 2021,

2021.03

Oral presentation (general)

南東アラビア山麓峡谷における人類の定着と環境：４年間のまとめと今後の展望

近藤康久, 三木健裕, 黒沼太一, 北川浩之

科研費新学術領域研究「パレオアジア文化史学：アジア新人文化形成プロセスの総合的研究」第10回研究大会,

2020.12

南東アラビア前２千年紀ワディ・スーク文化の再検討：ハジャル山脈南麓タヌーフ峡谷での調査から

近藤康久, 三木健裕, 黒沼太一

金沢大学国際文化資源学研究センター公開シンポジウム2020「西アジアにおける先史遊牧民と古代文明の成立」,

2020.12

Oral presentation (invited, special)

紀元前5千年紀、ザグロス山脈南麓における彩文土器の拡散・展開を再考する―バウンダリーオブジェクトとしての彩文土器―

三木健裕

日本オリエント学会第62回大会,

2020.12

Oral presentation (general)

彩文土器と銅石器時代の生活世界―紀元前5千年紀イラン南西部における土器生産組織と村落の変化―

三木健裕

日本西アジア考古学会第25回大会,

2020.11

Geochemical and Petrographic Insights into the Pottery Production During the Chalcolithic South-Central Iran

Takehiro Miki

EMAC 2019 Barcelona,

2019.09

Oral presentation (general)

Cave use in the Wādī Sūq period at Wādī Tanūf 1, Ad-Dhākhilīyah, Oman

Takehiro Miki, Yasuhisa Kondo, Taichi Kuronuma, Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Seminar for Arabian Studies 2019,

2019.07

Poster presentation

In the course of the archaeological survey of prehistoric sites in the 2017/18 season, the authors’ team discovered a cave in Wādī Tanūf, located in the Ad-Dhākhiliyah Governorate in the interior of Oman. This poster presents the preliminary results of the ground surface surveys and trial excavations in the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons. This cave is located on the cliff atop the right bank of Wādī Tanūf. The elevation from the wadi bed is ca. 200 metres. A total of 256 potsherds dated mainly to the Wādī Sūq period (2000–1600 BCE) was collected from the ground surface. In addition, two stone vessel fragments, which can be dated to the Umm an-Nār (2750–2000 BCE) and the Wādī Sūq periods were discovered. For more in-depth understandings of the cave, three test pits were excavated, and radiocarbon samples were collected. The test pits comprised aeolian sandy deposits with rock fragments that had collapsed from the ceiling. The virgin soil remains to be reached. The ceramic assemblage will be analysed for determining the cave use.

Deciphering Skills of Prehistoric Pottery Painting: A Case Study from Chalcolithic South-Central Iran

Takehiro Miki

Broadening Horizons 6,

2019.06

Oral presentation (general)

Skill, one of the important aspects in craft production, has not been well studied due to methodological difficulties to assess it through archaeological evidence. Recently, skill has drawn increasing attention since it can be mobilized to understand “communities of practice”, where apprentices with varying degrees of skills learn the knowledge and techniques required for craft production. In this paper, I present detailed observations on the painting skill of six complete pottery vessels with the identical motifs from the 5th mill. BCE Chalcolithic site of Tall-e Bakun A (Fars province, Iran) that are curated at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. I examine skill differences at Tall-e Bakun A and extract diagnostic skill markers to be applied to the analysis of painting skills at other contemporary sites in Fars province. Finally, diachronic changes in the distribution of skills will be presented. Investigations of skill contribute to a general history of “communities of practice” that engaged in the making of pottery.

JASPAR2018-01: general survey of archaeology and palaeoenvironment in the northern Indus Plain, Sindh, Pakistan

Atsushi Noguchi, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Toru Tamura, Yuji Ishii, Takehiro Miki, Carla Lancelotti, Ghulam M. Veesar, Tasleem Abro, Amin Chandio, Marco Madella

The 7th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia,

2019.05

Poster presentation

Test excavations and dating of Wadi Tanuf Cave 1 in the interior of Oman

Yasuhisa Kondo, Takehiro Miki, Taichi Kuronuma, Hiroyuki Kitagawa

The 7th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia,

2019.05

Poster presentation

The JASPAR Initiative

Marco Madella, Carla Lancelotti, Atsushi Noguchi, Ghulam M. Veesar, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Tasleem Abro, Takehiro Miki, Amin Chandio

EASAA 2018,

2018.07

Oral presentation (general)

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