The Seminar is a major international venue for presenting archaeological and other research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula from the earliest times to the present, and large portion of the papers presented make their way into the published proceedings after rigorous review. The 31 papers here discuss such topics as prehistoric camels at a new site in southeastern Arabia, a Himyarite model of water management illustrated by dams in the western mountains of Yemen, the village of Murwab in Qatar as an example of territory and settlement patterns during the ninth-century AD Abbasid period, the battle of Julfar in 880/1475, and an historical cartographic study of the Yabrin oasis in Saudi Arabia. No index is provided. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)