ISBN: 978-83-942288-5-9
Description: softcover, 179 pp., (30x21cm) figs.
Condition: new
Weight: 745g.

 
Piotr Bielinski, Marcin Bialowarczuk, Andrzej Reiche, Anna Smogorzewska, Agnieszka Szymczak, Bahra 1, Excavations in 2014 and 2015, Preliminary Report on the Sixth and Seventh Seasons of Kuwaiti-Polish Archaeologial Investigations, National Council for Culture Arts and Letters of the State of Kuwait, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Kuwait City - Warsaw 2016


Acknowledgments
Pior Bielinski
Introduction
Piotr Bielinski
Excavations in Units 3, 6, 10, 11, 14 and the north part of House 2
Andrzej Reiche
Excavations in House 1 and the south part of House 2
Anna Smogorzewska
Pottery
Marcin Bialowarczuk
Lithics
Andrzej Reiche
Small finds
Agnieszka Szymczak
A brief guide to the documentation system
The team
List of figures
Literature



Bahra 1 is a large Ubaid-period site in the Al-Subiyah region in Northern Kuwait which combines Ubaid and Arabian Neolithic characteristics, proving intensive contacts with Mesopotamia in the second half of the 6th millennium BC. Of particular interest was Unit 6 with an oval courtyard surrounded by a stone enclosure and fireplaces and fire-pits in two occupation phases. Several fireplaces were found also in an older level, apparently of a distinctly different character. Unit 14 showed the first case of a shelter being built into natural rock feature, while the remains under Unit 3, presenting a different spatial layout than later structures, indicated a period of abandonment of some duration between successive phases. The rich pottery collection of over 6200 fragments was broken down into nearly equal shares of Ubaid ware and Coarse Red Ware. The lithic material (over 30,000 tool fragments and debitage) formed a specialized assemblage dedicated to the production of tubular shell beads, adding to the evidence already collected for the existence of bead workshops at the site. An exceptional find was a copper object from one of the older layers of the settlement.