The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bat, Oman is home to one of the world's most complete ancient landscapes from the 3rd millennium BC and the largest archaeological site in Oman and the UAE. Bat is home to thousands of tombs, different settlement areas, and monumental stone and mudbrick towers that date to the Early Bronze Age, when the region was known as the land of Magan. With support from the US National Endowment for the Humanities, NYUAD, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum, the Bat Archaeological Project (BAP) has just completed a two-month winter fieldwork campaign at the site. This talk will present the preliminary results of this interdisciplinary research, including archaeological excavations and surveys; GIS mapping; artifact analysis; and geomorphology.

Speakers
Eli Dollarhide, Humanities Research Fellow, NYUAD

Moderated by
Nathalie Peutz, Associate Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies and Anthropology, NYUAD