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Reassessment of Northern Kuwait Bay’s Dry-Stone Tombs: Insights into Architecture, Burial Practices, and Socio-Economic Dynamics

Published inAsh-sharq, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 1-44
First online date2025-05-08
Abstract

This paper examines the Late Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age dry-stone funerary monuments discovered along the northern coast of Kuwait Bay. The latter are studied in terms of funerary architecture, burial practices and socio-economic dynamics. Kuwait Bay appears to be situated at the crossroads between the influences of northern Arabian Neolithic tribes, as well as of Mesopotamian – and later – Dilmun trade networks. As such, its populations might have been part of a translocal economic scheme based on the trade of goods, either bound for, or originating from within these different realms. Accordingly, we aimed to assess the impact of these socio-economic and socio-cultural dynamics on a micro-regional scale, focusing on the imprint they might have left on Al-Subiyah’s communities and their architectural traditions, funerary behaviours and material cultures.

Keywords
  • Dry-stone architecture
  • Funerary Archaeology
  • Protohistory
  • Kuwait
Citation (ISO format)
STEIMER, Tara et al. Reassessment of Northern Kuwait Bay’s Dry-Stone Tombs: Insights into Architecture, Burial Practices, and Socio-Economic Dynamics. In: Ash-sharq, 2025, vol. 9, n° 1, p. 1–44.
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Journal ISSN2513-8529
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