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Land: abandonment of, 20-22, 90; Mesopotamia, 50; Bahrain's link
arable area, 191; competition with, 56; estimated grain yields
for, 12-13 of, 190; Kassite, 51; Neo-Assyrian
Land tenure, 22-23 and Neo-Babylonian, 53-54
Land use, xvi, 10; ceramic Moesgaard Museum, xix, 295
assemblages and, 74; concentric Mohenjo-Daro, ceramic assemblage
zones of, 92-96; crops and, 199; of, 245
decrease in, related to trade, MOrner, N.A., 180,182
109-10; limits to, 188-192; Mortensen, P., xvi, xix, 245-47
model for, 104; and monsoon Musandam Peninsula, 270
rainfall, 185; peak periods of, Nabonidus, 49, 53-54,
on Bahrain, 99; periods of Nabopolassar, 53
195-207 and population growth, Nicator, Seleucus, 185
196; processes of, 114 Nicholson, S.E., 185
Landsat, 125, 145 Narim-sin, reign of, 34
Landsberger, B., xvii Nearchus, 55
Lane, A., 287, 289 Nebuchadnezzar n, 53-54
Leigh, E., 144 Necropolis, Bahrain as a,
MacKay, E., 31, 187-88 31, 188
Magan, 33, 36 Neogene complex, 120
Maliki, Sheikh Ibrahim al-, 67 Nestorian church, 59, 84;
Manama: as market center, 88, Niebuhr, Carsten, 61, 70
95; distribution of springs Nippur, ceramic assemblage of,
about, 113; distribution of 219, 259, 263
population about, 8-9; dis Ndldecke, T., 185
tribution of villages about, Nomads, raiding by, 51
113 Nummulites, 119
Marcellinus, Ammianus, 60 NUtzel, W., 179
Marine terraces, 171-75, 192 Oates, D., 261, 263
Maritime trade, 33-34; Achaemenid Oates, Joan, 74, 99
networks of, 54-61; centers of, Oman: ceramic parallels with,
83, 99; centered in Dilmun, 33, 221; copper associated with,
37; collapse of, 109; English 40; Gulf of, 171
and Dutch competition for, 69; Oppenheim, A.L., 2, 32, 35-36,
in post A.D. 1750 era, 70-72; 38, 40; on concept of maritime
Neo-Assyrian to Parthian, 83; trade, 38; on Dilmun as an
Sasanian, 110-11; with Dilmun, agricultural center, 51, 53, 55
37; with the Far East, 63; with Cfetkammer, ceramic assemblage
India, 99; with Magan and from, 253-55
Meluhha, 33-37 Ottoman Turks, 69
Markets, 22, 103; Paleocli mates, 169, 182
Marwan, Abdl Malik bin, 63 Paleoecological views of human
Masry, A.H., xx, 76, 200 groups, 185
McClure, H.A., 142-46, 164-66, 185 Paleohydrological reconstructions,
McCown, D.E., 263 139
McNicoll, A., 24, 43, 295 Parpola, A., 234-35, 244
Medley, M., 287 Parthians, overthrow of, 58
Meluhha, goods from, 33, 36
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