Archaeology Odyssey

Ueli Brunner, “Geography and Human Settlements in Ancient Southern Arabia,” Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 8 (1997), pp. 190–202; Burkhard Vogt, and Alexander Sedov, “The Sabir Culture and Coastal Yemen During the Second Millennium B.C.: The Present State of Discussion,” Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 28 (1998), pp. 261–270; Vincenzo Francaviglia “Dating the Ancient Dam of Ma’rib (Yemen),” Journal of Archaeological Science 27 (2000), pp. 643–53.

Christopher Edens, T.J. Wilkinson, and Glynn Barratt, “Hammat al-Qa and the Roots of Urbanism in Southwest Arabia,” Antiquity 74 (December 2000).

Sauer and Blakely, “Archaeology along the spice route of Yemen,” p. 100.

For a recent review of the derivation of the Old South Arabian script and its origins in the eastern Mediterranean or Levant, see Kenneth Kitchen, Documentation for Ancient Arabia, Part 1 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994), pp. 132–36.

Alessandro de Maigret, “The Arab nomadic people and the cultural interface between the ‘Fertile Crescent’ and ‘Arabia Felix’,” Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 10 (1999), pp. 220–224.

For the development of the incense trade in the context of the south Arabian civilization, see Nigel Groom, Frankincense and Myrrh: A Study of Arabian Incense Trade (London: Longman, 1981); and J.F. Breton, Arabia Felix From the Time of the Queen of Sheba (Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame Univ. Press, 1999).

See James A. Sauer and Jeffrey Blakely, “Archaeology along the spice route of Yemen,” in D.T. Potts (ed.), Araby the Blest: Studies in Arabian Archaeology (Copenhagen: Carston Niebur Institute, volume 7, 1988), pp. 91–115.

Robert J. Wenke’s Patterns in Prehistory (Oxford University Press, 1999) has an excellent discussion of the origins controversy, in which he tests each theory against all the available evidence and concludes that too little is known for anyone to decide which model of human origins is accurate.

William Straus and A. Cave, in “Pathology and Posture of Neanderthal Man” (Quarterly Review of Biology 32 [1957], p. 348), write that if a Neandertal man were “reincarnated and placed in a New York subway—provided he were bathed, shaved, and dressed in modern clothing—it is doubtful he would attract any more attention than some of its other denizens.”