Arabiens arkæologi
摘要
Arabian Gulf archeology The Eighth Campaign of the Danish Archeological Expedition 1961/62During the winter of 1961/62 the expedition sent out from the Forhistorisk Museum in Aarhus continued its work on the Arabian littoral of the Arabian Gulf, operating in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi. The expedition, which was in the field from 17th October 1961 to 29th January 1962, was under the leadership of Professor P. V. Glob, with T. G. Bibby as deputy director. There were 26 participants.As in previous years generous grants were received from a number of supporters in Denmark and the Arabian Gulf, including the governments of Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait, the Bahrain Petroleum Company, the Qatar Petroleum Company, the Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company and the Carlsberg Foundation.The report on the work in Kuwait during the campaign will be published in Kuml 1965.BahrainIn Bahrain work was concentrated on the two sites already extensively investigated during the previous seven campaigns, the third-millennium temple-complex at Barbar and the city-mound at Qala'at al-Bahrain, while investigations were also made of two of the large burial mounds south of the village of Ali.Barbar. Here Hellmuth Andersen and Peder Mortensen completed their investigation of the temple-complex with a series of excavations on the outskirts of the site:To the west of the temple two trenches dug E-W revealed, at a depth below that of the original temple, two building phases with remains of houses built in unworked stone set in clay, the walls in some cases plastered with gypsum. The lower building level was contemporary with Temple II or early Temple III, the upper level with late Temple III. The excavation was extended to uncover some rooms of a house belonging to the earlier phase, while a seal was discovered below a floor belonging to the later phase.North of the temple the outer terrace wall of Temple III proved to be poorly preserved, in one to two courses of stone. It was, however, thereby sho