Excavations and Surveys of 2022 and 2023 at Wadi al-Maʻawil (Oman)

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· Materiali e documenti Book 122 · Sapienza Università Editrice
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During 2022 and 2023, our field activities focused on Wadi al-Maʻawil, a very large wadi close to the Muslimāt village in between Nakhal and Afī oasis, where in 2022 we discovered a completely unexplored and multifaceted ecotope. We selected a 10 x 10 Km squared area encompassing this ecotope after ground truthing because of the high intensity of the archaeological features and because it featured three adaptive conditions: the presence of large widyān with central terraces, the presence of an anthropized oasis and the presence of a possible ancient settlement pattern in which the anthropic features (settlements, graves, pathways) were almost close together and intervisible. This volume studies the landscape of the site and classifies, studies, and describes all the finds during the excavations and survey campaigns of 2022 and 2023.


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Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, researcher at Sapienza University of Rome and field director in MASPAG. Previously, the director of the Prevention of Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property project at the American Center of Research and a lecturer at Potsdam University.


Alessandro Di Ludovico, Dr in archaeology of West Asia, works at Museo Barracco (Rome). He has taken part in field campaigns in Syria, the Levant, and Oman. His main research interests deal with quantitative methods applied to archaeology and art history, and with perception and communication phenomena in antiquity.


Marco Ramazzotti, teaches Archaeology and Art History of Ancient Western Asia and Eastern Mediterranean at Sapienza University. In the Department of Sciences of Antiquity, he directs the Laboratory of Analytical Archeology and Adaptive Artificial Systems, the Atlas of the Ancient Near East, the Sapienza Archaeological Mission in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf, and chairs the Course in Sciences of Sustainable Tourism.


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