Central Places in Arabia

Program

	3.12.2009
	The Invention of Arabia: How the Peninsula became the 'Central Place' of the Arabs Michael C. A. Macdonald – University of Oxford, United Kingdom
	Central and Secondary Places in North-Western Arabia during the Nabataean Period Laïla Nehmé – Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, France
	Tayma Arnulf Hausleiter – Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
	Petra and the Rest: Private Architecture in the Nabataean and Roman Periods Bernhard Kolb – Universität Basel, Schweiz
	Petra - A Nabataean Central Place? A Showcase? A Difficult Case! Stephan G. Schmid – Institut für Archäologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
	Roman Petra: A 'Showcase' in the Central Place Fiema Zbigniew – University of Helsinki, Republic of Finland
	Coin-Circulation in Petra and Hegra: A comparison in the Light of Recent Finds Christian Augé – Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, France
	Dharih, Centre of the Hasa Valley or Stop on the Main Road? François Villeneuve – Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
	Hawara (Ancient Humayma): A Case Study of the Spread of Water-Supply Technology in the Nabataean Kingdom John-Peter Oleson – University of Victoria, Canada
	Oboda and its Territory Tali Erickson-Gini – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
	Jerusalem and Beyond. Central Places in the Herodian Realm Achim Lichtenberger – Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
	Jurash in the Asir, a Central Place on the Caravan Route between South Arabia and Petra David F. Graf – University of Miami, Florida, USA
	Mleiha, a Central Place in Late Pre-Islamic South-Arabia Michel Mouton – Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, France