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Locating al-Qadisiyyah: mapping Iraq’s most famous Early Islamic conquest site (2024)
Journal Article
Deadman, W. M., Jotheri, J., Hopper, K., Almayali, R., al-Luhaibi, A. A., & Crane, A. (online). Locating al-Qadisiyyah: mapping Iraq’s most famous Early Islamic conquest site. Antiquity, https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.185

The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah (c. AD 637/8) was a crucial victory by the Arab Muslims over the forces of the Sasanian Empire during the early Islamic conquests. Analysis of satellite imagery of south-west Iraq has now revealed the likely location of th... Read More about Locating al-Qadisiyyah: mapping Iraq’s most famous Early Islamic conquest site.

Karstic Aquifers and Climate Refugia: A Preliminary Outline History of Water-Management Strategy in Bronze and Iron Age Southeast Arabia (2024)
Journal Article
de Vreeze, M., Kennet, D., & Deadman, W. M. (2024). Karstic Aquifers and Climate Refugia: A Preliminary Outline History of Water-Management Strategy in Bronze and Iron Age Southeast Arabia. Open Quaternary, 10, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.144

This paper attempts to set out a preliminary narrative of changing water exploitation and settlement in Southeast Arabia from the Umm an-Nar period to the Iron Age, with a particular focus on the 4.2ka event. It argues for long-term cultural and adap... Read More about Karstic Aquifers and Climate Refugia: A Preliminary Outline History of Water-Management Strategy in Bronze and Iron Age Southeast Arabia.

The nature of third‐millennium settlement: The example of al‐Tikha (Rustaq) an Umm an‐Nar site on the Batinah coast of Oman (2022)
Journal Article
Deadman, W. M., Kennet, D., de Vreeze, M., & al‐Jahwari, N. S. (2022). The nature of third‐millennium settlement: The example of al‐Tikha (Rustaq) an Umm an‐Nar site on the Batinah coast of Oman. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/aae.12218

al-Tikha is a mid to large Umm an-Nar (c. 2700–2000 BC) settlement situated near Rustaq at the back of the Southern Batinah coastal plain in the Sultanate of Oman that was discovered (or rediscovered) in 2014. The site is unique because its layout an... Read More about The nature of third‐millennium settlement: The example of al‐Tikha (Rustaq) an Umm an‐Nar site on the Batinah coast of Oman.

Early Bronze Age Society in Eastern Arabia: An Analysis of the Funerary Archaeology of the Hafit Period (3200-2500 BC) in the Northern Oman Peninsula with Special Reference to the Al-Batinah Region (2017)
Thesis
Deadman, W. (2017). Early Bronze Age Society in Eastern Arabia: An Analysis of the Funerary Archaeology of the Hafit Period (3200-2500 BC) in the Northern Oman Peninsula with Special Reference to the Al-Batinah Region. (Thesis). Durham University. Retrieved from https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1647188

The Rustaq Batinah Archaeological Survey. (2016)
Journal Article
Kennet, D., Deadman, W., & al-Jahwari, N. (2016). The Rustaq Batinah Archaeological Survey. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 46, 155-168

Discussion (2016)
Book Chapter
Deadman, W. (2016). Discussion. In B. Saunders (Ed.), Archaeological Rescue Excavations on Packages 3 and 4 of the Batinah Expressway, Sultanate of Oman (189-206). Archaeopress