Beidha, to most people, means the pre-pottery Neolithic village excavated by Diana Kirkbride since 1958 - the report on that will follow in several volumes. This first Beidha volume is devoted to the Natufian levels below the Neolithic levels but exposed in places around the abraded fell. It describes the stratigraphy and the artifact distribution, and illustrates and discusses the lithic assemblages and tool types, and other evidence from the site: pollen, fauna, shells, geological setting.

Details Jan Zahle's investigations of subterranean structures close to the Maussolleion. This book says that Zahle's sifting of evidence resolves many contradictions, though uncertainties still remain.

Presents a study of selected ceramic finds from the Maussolleion site. From a body of 120,000 items, this book emphasises in situ contexts related to the construction of the Maussolleion, and representative items from the large body of Hellenistic material.

Describes the foundations of the Mausolleion laid within the large, rectangular cutting in the bedrock and named "the quadrangle" by Newton. This volume features illustrations, which include a plan of the re-excavated foundations; elevations of cross-secti

Failaka/Ikaros -- The Hellenistic Settlements, Volume 3 - Danish Archaeological Investigations in Kuwait -- The Sacred Enclosure in the Early Hellenistic Period

Excavations carried out by the Danish Moesgaard Museum on the island of Failaka in Kuwait in 1958-1963 produced a large collection of stone vessel fragments which have ever since puzzled scholars. The settlements excavated on Failaka, Tell F3 and Tell F6, belong to the 2nd millennium BC, but stone vessels of Serie Ancienne and Umm an-Nar styles of the 3rd millennium BC are well represented in the Failaka collection. Besides vessels of Wadi Suq and Late Bronze Age styles there is a significant group of figurative decorated stone vessels in a style completely unknown from anywhere else in the...