CRÉPY , Maël

Prehistoric refuges and oases are intrinsically defined and understood as local exceptions to a regional inhospitable environment. In arid lands, a part of this discrepancy is a consequence of natural factors, environmental and/or palaeoenvironmental, which renderedcertainplaces more hospitable for human activities than their surroundings such...

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Papers from the fifty-second meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studiesheld at the British Museum, London, 3 to 5 August 2018

In order to understand the role of water resources in the establishment and long‐term evolution of settlements investigated by the French Archaeological Mission in the UAE in the oasis of Masāfī, wells and springs of all periods, identified at the surface and in stratified contexts, were mapped and studied thanks to a multidisciplinary approach...

Challenge of oasis farming: past resilience in the oasis of Dhayah (U.A.E.)

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Since 2006, the work of the French Archaeological in the UAE has revealed that the area of Masafi(Fujairah), in the northern part of the Hajar mountains, had been settled from the 2nd millennium BC(Wadi Suq period, 2000-1600 BC) onwards. In particular, the valley was densely populated during theIron Age II (1100-600 BC) and during the Late...