Arabiens arkæologi

Arabian Gulf Archeology The Eleventh Campaign of the Danish Archeological Expedition 1965On the 25th of January 1965 the advance party of the 11th Danish expedition to the Arabian Gulf arrived in Bahrain to reopen the camp within the ruins of the Portuguese fort, before the main party, following nine days later, arrived on the 3rd of February. This comparatively late start to the season's work was made in order to avoid the month of Ramadhan, with its fasting, shortened working hours and subsequent public holidays. To compensate for the late start the expedition continued working throughout April and only terminated on May 5th, considerably later in the year than it had ever ventured to work before. The weather, however, was unusually mild, the customary April heat-wave with its foretaste of summer failed to materialise, and only on one day did the temperature exceed that of the human body.The expedition, under the direction of Professor P. V. Glob, assisted by T. G. Bibby, was reduced this season to twelve persons, as, with the cessation of field work in Qatar, excavation was to be confined to Bahrain and Abu Dhabi. Generous financial support was provided, as usual, by oil companies in these two lands, by the Government of Bahrain, the Danish Carlsberg Foundation, and other well-wishers. With the assistance of the Arabian American Oil Company a reconnaissance was once more made in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. The supervision of our commissariat in Bahrain was once more in the capable bands of Lillian Bue-Madsen; the remaining members of the expedition are recorded in the reports of the individual excavations.BahrainThe season's excavations in Bahrain were planned as a continuation of the two-year projects begun in 1964, and were in the main confined to the tell on the north coast of the island, known as Qala'at al-Bahrain, on which the expedition has dug every year since 1954. The only other excavation of significance was that of an undisturbed burial mound brought to our attention by amateur ...