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subcontinent, and een the Far East for recent eriods Do they allo one finally to
1reciate the resectie share of indigenous elements and eterior contributions in
the general deeloment of the city, in different hases of its history

t is to these general queslions that French archaeologists hae alied themseles,
and for nore than fifteen years, hae faithfully ecaated this comle archaeological
field, in close collaboration ith the Ministry of lnformation of State of Bahrain and
its Direclorates of Tourism and Archaeology, and of Heritage and Museums.

- Historical Account and Strategy of the Project

From 19 o 1988 a first French team, under the direciton of Moni Kerran,
undertoo the stratigrahic and architectural sutdy of the "Coastal Fortress' (cf.
Figure 1) and its immediate enirons (Kerran et al. 1982). The ublicaiton of the
synthesis hich she is resently comleting (Kerran forthcoming) ill comlement
usefully the ifrst of the olumes deoted to the or of the receding Danish team of
Moesgaard, hich has recently aeared (Hojlund and Andersen 1994, and concerns
this same sector of the site hich still arouses heated debate concerning the
chronology.

in 1988, a second French team, under the direciton of the author, roosed to the
archaeological authorities of Bahrain a more articular concentration, sitll at Oal'at

1 OTHE PALM GOVE
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2 COATSAL FOTESS

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CT WALL

WETSE CT WALL

6 "PALACE OF U‫ﺕ‬EU" AEA

S‫ﺕ‬UTH-WESET CT WALL

8 EW ٧LLACE

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Fig‫ﻫ‬re 1 Setch-ma of the tell of gnl'at al-Bairain

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