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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Année : 2007

From Ṣāfer to Bālḥāf — rescue excavations along the Yemen LNG pipeline route

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The Centre Français d'Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa (CEFAS) and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) in СanaΚāΜ, in cooperation with the Yemeni General Organization of Antiquities and Museums (GOAM), carried out a preventive archaeological survey along the route of a projected pipeline that will transfer the natural gas from Сāfer deposits (Governorate of Mārib) to the future Yemen LNG facilities in the village of BālΉāf (Governorate of Shabwa). This survey took place along the route in order to identify all archaeological sites in danger of partial or total destruction due to the future construction of the pipeline. Archaeological remains are from very different time periods, which stretch from the earliest prehistoric times to recent Islamic occupations. A total of 171 archaeological sites have been individualized and documented by preliminary plan drawing, photography, and material sampling. The use of a Geographic Information System (GIS) enabled a precise localization of the archaeological occupations along the studied area. This paper focuses on the first results of the excavations realized at two major sites: the previously unknown ancient Hadramitic settlement of Darbas at Wādī Jirdān (main occupation during the second half of the first millennium BC), and a widespread sample of "Bronze Age" funerary structures on the western jawl.
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hal-01828433 , version 1 (03-07-2018)

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Rémy Crassard, Holger Hitgen. From Ṣāfer to Bālḥāf — rescue excavations along the Yemen LNG pipeline route. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2007, 37. ⟨hal-01828433⟩
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