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19 January - 17 March 2001
Worked as part of the excavation
team at site H3,
as-Sabiyah, Kuwait, a 5th millennium BC settlement site located on the
north coast of Kuwait Bay. The excavations are directed by Dr.
Harriet Crawford and Dr. Robert Carter, Institute
of Archaeology, University College, London.
1 April 2001
Read a press story
by Richard Weekes entitled "Secrets
of world's oldest boat are discovered in Kuwait sands". This article
is about our discoveries at the as-Sabiyah site in Kuwait, and it appeared
in both the Sunday Telegraph and Electronic Telegraph.
6 April 2001
Read two articles
about the Kuwait project in the Kuwait
Monthly Bulletin - April issue (no.84) - "Pottery dating back
7,000 years found at Sabiya" and "7,000 year old boat discovered in Kuwait".
NOTE: this file is in Acrobat pdf format - 219 Kb - To view this you
will need the Adobe
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from the Adobe site.
15-19 April 2001
I presented a paper
at the First International Conference on Emirates Archaeology, entitled
"The Development
of Fishing in the UAE: a Zooarchaeological Perspective". This
was a conference organised by the Zayed
Center for Heritage and History, in Abu Dhabi, with the co-sponsorship
of the Ministry of Information and Culture of the United Arab Emirates.
20 April - 14 May
2001
Continued study
of the animal bones from the Sasanian/Islamic tell of Kush
at the National Museum of
Ras al-Khaimah, as well as work in Abu Dhabi for the Abu
Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey (ADIAS) in the United Arab Emirates.
17 May 2001
Added four new
articles to my list of publications:
Beech, M. and
P. Hellyer. 2001. C14 dating of Iron Age hearths on the island
of Rufayq, Abu Dhabi. Tribulus (Bulletin of the Emirates Natural History
Group) 11(1): 21-23.
Beech,
M. and H. Kallweit. 2001. A Note on the Archaeological and
Environmental remains from Site JH-57, a 5th-4th Millennium BC shell midden
in Jazirat al-Hamra, Ra's al-Khaimah. Tribulus (Bulletin of the Emirates
Natural History Group) 11(1): 17-20.
Beech,
M. and E. Shepherd. 2001. Archaeobotanical evidence for early date
consumption on Dalma Island, United Arab Emirates. Antiquity 75: 83-9.
Beech,
M., J. Elders and E. Shepherd. 2000. Reconsidering the 'Ubaid of
the Southern Gulf: new results from excavations on Dalma Island, U.A.E.
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 30: 41-47.
22 May 2001
Successfully
defended my Phd thesis in the Department of Archaeology at the University
of York. My examiners were: Professor
Terry O'Connor (Department
of Archaeology, University of York)
and Dr. Wim Van Neer (Royal
Africa Museum, Tervuren, Belgium).
9 June 2001
I attended the
York University Archaeology Society Annual Conference, where I presented
a paper entitled: "Herding,
Fishing, Pearling and Trading: Re-examining the Early Neolithic of the
Arabian Gulf".
6 July 2001
Read an interview
I gave to the Kuwait
Monthly Bulletin - June issue (no.86) about my work in Kuwait
this spring. NOTE: this file is in Acrobat pdf format - 230 Kb -
To view this you will need the Adobe
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from the Adobe site.
13 July 2001
Graduation Ceremony
at the University of York - The degree of Doctorate
of Philosophy in Archaeology was conferred upon me by the Vice-Chancellor
of York University, Professor Ron Cooke, BSc MSc PhD DSc FRGS.
19-21 July 2001
Attended the
Seminar for Arabian Studies at the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh,
where I presented a paper entitled: "In
the Land of the Ichthyophagi: Modelling fish exploitation in the Arabian
Gulf and Gulf of Oman from the 5th millennium BC to the Late Islamic Period".
3 September 2001
Added new article
to my list of publications:
Hellyer, P. and
M. Beech. 2001. Protected Areas and Cultural Heritage: An Abu Dhabi
Case Study. In: Research and Management Options for Protected Areas. Proceedings
of the First International Symposium and Workshop on Arid Zone Environments
(January 2000). Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency,
Abu Dhabi. pp.195-213.1
October 2001
Appointed Honorary
Visiting Fellow (for 3 years) in the Department
of Archaeology at the University
of York.
4 October 2001
Updated my Current
Research page with new details.
22 October - 12 November 2001
Worked in the
United Arab Emirates for the Abu Dhabi
Islands Archaeoogical Survey (ADIAS).
15-18 November
2001
I attended the
"The fifth millennium
BC in the Near East" conference, where I co-presented a paper with
Emily Glover entitled, "The
environment and economy of an early 5th millennium BC site on Dalma island,
UAE". This conference is being jointly organised by the University
of Liverpool
and Manchester (Sponsored
by the British Institute
of Archaeology at Ankara, British
School of Archaeology in Iraq, Council
for British Research in the Levant and National
Museums and Galleries on Merseyside).
15 December 2001-
12 January 2002
Worked in the
United Arab Emirates for the Abu Dhabi
Islands Archaeological Survey (ADIAS).
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