Landscapes of Death: Early Bronze Age tombs and mortuary rituals on the Oman Peninsula 

REVIEW BY GEORGE NASH The Oman Peninsula and the surrounding Gulf States have been the focus of archaeological research for at least 120 years. Although the region’s archaeological record extends as far back as the Middle Palaeolithic – including evidence of our cousins, Neanderthals, as well as early modern humans – most visible are the drystone burial-ritual monuments of the Bronze Age. This was certainly made apparent to me when visiting the area around the slopes of Qarn bint Sa’ud and the eastern hinterlands of Jebel Hafeet (north and south of the city of Al-Ain) where over 150 monuments stand in distinctive clusters, in varying states of decay (see CWA 116 and 124). These