TY - JOUR
T1 - Current finds in rock art research of Oman: a review and update
AU - Fossati, Angelo Eugenio
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The petroglyphs and pictographs of Oman are little known, but for the last 9 years I have been involved,
through the Omani Ministry of Heritage and Culture, in a series of surveys of the Jebel Akhdar Mountain
range, that have resulted in the location of several important sites. The recording of these sites, on occasion
in advance of major roadwork modernization projects, has for the first time enabled detailed research of the
rock art in the area. This is being undertaken through the research of: superimpositions; cross-dating with
known artistic expressions elsewhere in the region; the known dates for the introduction of writing systems
in Ancient Arabic and Standard Arabic alphabet; the study of various objects of material culture; and the
presence of certain animals in the rock art (such as turtles, oryxes, goats-like animals, camels and horses). I
propose a preliminary chronology consisting of several major phases spanning the last 7,000 years.
AB - The petroglyphs and pictographs of Oman are little known, but for the last 9 years I have been involved,
through the Omani Ministry of Heritage and Culture, in a series of surveys of the Jebel Akhdar Mountain
range, that have resulted in the location of several important sites. The recording of these sites, on occasion
in advance of major roadwork modernization projects, has for the first time enabled detailed research of the
rock art in the area. This is being undertaken through the research of: superimpositions; cross-dating with
known artistic expressions elsewhere in the region; the known dates for the introduction of writing systems
in Ancient Arabic and Standard Arabic alphabet; the study of various objects of material culture; and the
presence of certain animals in the rock art (such as turtles, oryxes, goats-like animals, camels and horses). I
propose a preliminary chronology consisting of several major phases spanning the last 7,000 years.
KW - Ancient South Arabian
KW - Jebel Akhdar
KW - Omani Rock Art Chronology
KW - T-figures
KW - Ancient South Arabian
KW - Jebel Akhdar
KW - Omani Rock Art Chronology
KW - T-figures
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/118823
U2 - 10.5281/zenodo.893196
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.893196
M3 - Article
VL - 2017
SP - 75
EP - 88
JO - Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
JF - Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
SN - 1108-9628
ER -