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Jocelyn Orchard

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described this thesis as "arguably the most radical interpretation of late fourth and third millennium BC cultural development in the Oman peninsula since archaeological excavations began in region", sharply critiquing it as "fundamentally flawed" and disputing Orchard's interpretation of the size,
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age, and agricultural sophistication of the Hajar towns, as well as their putative divergence from the accepted interpretation of Umm an-Nar sites. Orchard herself acknowledged that there was "virtually no empirical archaeological evidence" of the sophisticated
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irrigation system in what is now a desert region. She distinguished them from the settlements of the contemporary, much more simple
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Orchard argued that the Hajar Oasis Towns were large settlements on a par with Mesopotamian cities such as
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After graduating, Orchard worked on excavations at several major sites in the Near East, including
56: 179: 369: 317: 270: 243:"Third Millennium Oasis Towns and Environmental Constraints on Settlement in the al-Hajar Region" 143: 126: 361: 309: 262: 194: 353: 301: 254: 147: 387: 342:"Rewriting the Late Prehistory of South-Eastern Arabia: A Reply to Jocelyn Orchard" 118: 122: 26: 102:, then the British School's assistant director and from 1971 a lecturer at the 214: 47: 365: 313: 266: 79: 45:, on 27 October 1936, to Charles Farrell, a civil engineer, and Hilda May ( 373: 321: 274: 341: 289: 242: 357: 305: 258: 138: 83: 133: 87: 290:"The Origins of Agricultural Settlement in the al-Ḥajar Region" 33:
and in particular the "Hajar Oasis Towns" of northern Oman.
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Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Volume 50
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as an assistant to the Department of Antiquities of the
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British Trinidadian
archaeologist
archaeology of the Near East
Port of Spain, Trinidad
née
Bishop Anstey High School
Sorbonne
master's degree
University of Edinburgh
Near Eastern archaeology
Institute of Archaeology
Jerusalem
Petra
Uruk
Palestine Exploration Fund
British School of Archaeology in Iraq
Jeffery Orchard
University of Birmingham
South Arabia
Aden Colony
Al Hajar Mountains
Uruk
falaj
Umm an-Nar culture
Daniel T. Potts




Tallis, Nigel

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