These proceedings of the July 2006 seminar include 24 of the 44 oral and poster presentations. Topics (in English except where noted) include the coastal prehistory of the Red Sea Basin (including underwater archeology and the Farasan Islands), the chronology of the evolution of urban Hadramawt architecture (in French), materials used in ancient Yemeni mummification and burial practices, rescue excavations along the Yemen LNG pipeline, pastoral communities of the Halocene climate optimum, coins of south east Arabia, the neolithic Arabian Peninsula, water and waste in medieval Yemen, tribal links between the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle Euphrates, rare ethnographic photography from the 1930s and 1940s, stargazing in northern Oman, the archeology of a Yemeni village in an Islamic period, Arabian corridor migration, ceramic production in ancient Yemen, and reports on new and ongoing sites of excavation. Distributed in North America by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)