H Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 6997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2232-7931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Bronze Age Tombs of Northwest Arabia
Northwest Arabia is marked by tens of thousands of monumental burial structures, most of which appear to have been built during the Bronze Age. These funerary features range from simple cairns and tower tombs through to large ‘pendant’ burials with elaborate tail constructions. Yet despite their clear presence across the landscape, comparatively little analysis of these structures has been undertaken to date. This paper presents results from the …
New evidence for Neolithic occupation in north-west Arabia
Recent archaeological investigations in AlUla County have provided the first detailed chrono-cultural evidence for long-term Neolithic domestic occupation in this archaeologically unknown region of north-west Arabia. This paper presents the preliminary findings drawn from multi-scalar datasets collected through extensive aerial and ground surveys, and the excavations of ‘monumental’ architectural installations, named in this study as ‘Standing St…
The Nexus of Cult and Pastoralism in Neolithic Northwest Arabia
At present more than 1600 mustatil have been recorded across Arabia. These monumental ritual structures have been interpreted as markers of territoriality and a key component in constructing and consolidating kinship ties and communal social identities in the Late Neolithic. Perhaps most strikingly, these structures are marked by a homogeneity of architectural form, over a vast geographic area, some 350,000 km2. In AlUla County, ten mustatil have…
Understanding ecological civilization in China
Kites of AlUla County and the Ḥarrat ʿUwayriḍ, Saudi Arabia
A comprehensive remote sensing survey of AlUla County in north‐west Saudi Arabia has revealed 32 examples of the ancient, stone‐built animal traps known as ‘kites’. Noting that most (27) are located on the Ḥarrat ʿ Uwayriḍ, a satellite survey of parts of that lavafield outside of AlUla County was undertaken, identifying a further 175 kites. These show commonalities with ‘V‐shaped’ kites previously identified in mountainous areas along the western…
The Middle Holocene ‘funerary avenues’ of north-west Arabia
The desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula and Levant are criss-crossed by innumerable pathways. Across large areas of north-west Arabia, many of these pathways are flanked by stone monuments, the vast majority of which are ancient tombs. Recent radiometric dating indicates that the most abundant of these monuments, elaborate and morphologically diverse ‘pendant’ structures, were constructed during the mid-to-late third millennium BCE. Thousands…
Dating the pendant burials of north‐west Arabia
The monumental stone structures of the Arabian Peninsula have been notoriously difficult to date. Due to their visibility in the landscape, they have suffered from extensive robbing and later reuse, which has compromised dating methodologies. In particular, our understanding of when the elaborate “pendants” (also known as “tailed cairns” or “tailed tower tombs”) of north‐west Arabia were first constructed has remained incomplete. Recent work unde…
Monumentality, Social Memory, and Territoriality in Neolithic–Chalcolithic Northwestern Arabia
Recent excavations undertaken by the Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (AAKSA) project have recovered significant skeletal material, evidence for funerary offerings, including jewelry, and the earliest chronometrically dated domestic dog in the Arabian Peninsula. Despite being heavily disturbed by recent looting, these monumental funerary structures were found to be collective burials dating to the 5th and 4th millennia b.c. The e…
The mustatils
North-western Arabia is marked by thousands of prehistoric stone structures. Of these, the monumental, rectilinear type known as mustatils has received only limited attention. Recent fieldwork in AlUla and Khaybar Counties, Saudi Arabia, demonstrates that these monuments are architecturally more complex than previously supposed, featuring chambers, entranceways and orthostats. These structures can now be interpreted as ritual installations dating…
High resolution terrestrial thermography of archaeological sites
Thermal infrared imaging, or thermography, is the remote sensing technique of detecting variations in ground temperature caused by exposed or subsurface archaeological remains either absorbing or radiating heat. Despite its conception in the 1970s, the practice has to date been rarely utilized, as a result of the high cost of the technology and the complex interplay of environmental variables. However, recent studies have demonstrated the effecti…
A methodology for combining terrestrial and aerial photographs to create high resolution photogrammetric models of large-scale archaeological sites
Some like it hot
Infrared thermography, or thermal imaging, has been used as a remote sensing technique to determine whether subsurface features such as walls or pits generate a heat differentiation from the surrounding earth. To date, this form of remote sensing has been notoriously difficult to perform due to cost, low‐resolution thermal cameras and an inability to provide a stable aerial photographic platform. Furthermore, thermal fluctuations produced by arch…
A new methodology for accurate digital planning of archaeological sites without the aid of surveying equipment
Paul Webster. King John and Religion
If one were asked to compile a list of religiously active medieval rulers, King John of England would probably be one of the last monarchs to come to mind. Both medieval chroniclers such as Matthew Paris and modern historians such as William Stubbs have attacked John for being irreligious. Yet the plentiful records of John’s reign provide copious evidence for the king’s participation in religious activities, as Paul Webster amply demonstrates in …
Spiritualities of Life
As an avid on-and-off yoga enthusiast, I was almost giddy to read Paul Heelas's recent book Spiritualities of Life: New Age Romanticism and Consumptive Capitalism, hoping for some scholarly ammunition to justify the purchase of the hundred-dollar yoga pants I ideologically oppose yet secretly wish to purchase. Throughout the pages, my ideological opposition eventually won out, as Heelas provides an extremely well-researched treatise on contempora…
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Kuper's Kalahari kaos
Terry Martin Bowen
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The measurement of satisfaction with healthcare
Unveiling Kate Chopin
Benchmarking Florida’s Electric Power Enterprises
Cities continue to struggle to provide the level of goods and services demanded by their residents while federal and state support dwindles. One proposal for resolving this dilemma is privatization because it is assumed that the private sector is more efficient, at least partly as a result of more readily adopting efficiency enhancing techniques such as TQM. The electric power industry provides an excellent comparison between the public and priva…
Monasteries and Landscape in North East England
The Slave Trade
The Slave Trade
LA Conquista De Mexico
Understanding ecological civilization in China
Dating the pendant burials of north‐west Arabia
The monumental stone structures of the Arabian Peninsula have been notoriously difficult to date. Due to their visibility in the landscape, they have suffered from extensive robbing and later reuse, which has compromised dating methodologies. In particular, our understanding of when the elaborate “pendants” (also known as “tailed cairns” or “tailed tower tombs”) of north‐west Arabia were first constructed has remained incomplete. Recent work unde…
Monumentality, Social Memory, and Territoriality in Neolithic–Chalcolithic Northwestern Arabia
Recent excavations undertaken by the Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (AAKSA) project have recovered significant skeletal material, evidence for funerary offerings, including jewelry, and the earliest chronometrically dated domestic dog in the Arabian Peninsula. Despite being heavily disturbed by recent looting, these monumental funerary structures were found to be collective burials dating to the 5th and 4th millennia b.c. The e…
Some like it hot
Infrared thermography, or thermal imaging, has been used as a remote sensing technique to determine whether subsurface features such as walls or pits generate a heat differentiation from the surrounding earth. To date, this form of remote sensing has been notoriously difficult to perform due to cost, low‐resolution thermal cameras and an inability to provide a stable aerial photographic platform. Furthermore, thermal fluctuations produced by arch…
Kites of AlUla County and the Ḥarrat ʿUwayriḍ, Saudi Arabia
A comprehensive remote sensing survey of AlUla County in north‐west Saudi Arabia has revealed 32 examples of the ancient, stone‐built animal traps known as ‘kites’. Noting that most (27) are located on the Ḥarrat ʿ Uwayriḍ, a satellite survey of parts of that lavafield outside of AlUla County was undertaken, identifying a further 175 kites. These show commonalities with ‘V‐shaped’ kites previously identified in mountainous areas along the western…
The Middle Holocene ‘funerary avenues’ of north-west Arabia
The desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula and Levant are criss-crossed by innumerable pathways. Across large areas of north-west Arabia, many of these pathways are flanked by stone monuments, the vast majority of which are ancient tombs. Recent radiometric dating indicates that the most abundant of these monuments, elaborate and morphologically diverse ‘pendant’ structures, were constructed during the mid-to-late third millennium BCE. Thousands…
The Bronze Age Tombs of Northwest Arabia
Northwest Arabia is marked by tens of thousands of monumental burial structures, most of which appear to have been built during the Bronze Age. These funerary features range from simple cairns and tower tombs through to large ‘pendant’ burials with elaborate tail constructions. Yet despite their clear presence across the landscape, comparatively little analysis of these structures has been undertaken to date. This paper presents results from the …
The mustatils
North-western Arabia is marked by thousands of prehistoric stone structures. Of these, the monumental, rectilinear type known as mustatils has received only limited attention. Recent fieldwork in AlUla and Khaybar Counties, Saudi Arabia, demonstrates that these monuments are architecturally more complex than previously supposed, featuring chambers, entranceways and orthostats. These structures can now be interpreted as ritual installations dating…
The Slave Trade
High resolution terrestrial thermography of archaeological sites
Thermal infrared imaging, or thermography, is the remote sensing technique of detecting variations in ground temperature caused by exposed or subsurface archaeological remains either absorbing or radiating heat. Despite its conception in the 1970s, the practice has to date been rarely utilized, as a result of the high cost of the technology and the complex interplay of environmental variables. However, recent studies have demonstrated the effecti…
The Slave Trade
A new methodology for accurate digital planning of archaeological sites without the aid of surveying equipment
Disarmament
The Royal Capital of Buganda
Journal Article The Royal Capital of Buganda Get access The Royal Capital of Buganda. A Study of Internal Conflict and External Ambiguity. By Peter C. W. Gutkind. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Holland. Mouton. 42 Guilders. H. B. Thomas H. B. Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 63, Issue 253, October 1964, Pages 293–295, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a0952…
Sidney Webb and East Africa. Labour's Experiment with the Doctrine of Native Paramountcy
Journal Article Sidney Webb and East Africa. Labour's Experiment with the Doctrine of Native Paramountcy Get access Sidney Webb and East Africa. Labour's Experiment with the Doctrine of Native Paramountcy. By Robert G. Gregory. University of California Press. $3.50 ( U.K. Cambridge University Press). H. B. Thomas H. B. Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 256, July 1965,…
The Hero in the Empty Room
De Spaanse Burgeroorlog en zijn gevolgen
Emily Dickinson's "Renunciation" and Anorexia Nervosa
QINCE the death of Emily Dickinson in I886 of Bright's Diso ease and the publication of what she called her Snow, biographers and critics have proposed various motives for her nearly forty years of seclusion and renunciation: the unrealistic expectations of a Calvinistic father, the recurrent illnesses of a demanding mother, and the romantic disappointments of the Master period. She has been declared an anxious agoraphobic, a latent homosexual, a…
Rowing in Eden
To Fill a Gap: Erasures, Disguises, Definitions *2. Rowing in Eden: Reading Dickinson Reading *3. All Men Say What to Me: Sexual Identity and Problems of Literary Creativity *4. With the Exception of Shakespeare: Reconstructing Dickinson's Relationship with Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson *5. To Be Susan Is Imagination: Dickinson's Poetry Workshop *6. Fame is a Fickle Food: Sister Sue as Producer of Poems * Notes * Bibliography * Index
Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders, and Thugs
The Slave Trade
The Slave Trade
Journal Article The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440–1870. By Hugh Thomas. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 908 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-684-81063-8.) Get access Joseph C. Miller Joseph C. Miller University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 646–647, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567777…
Benchmarking Florida’s Electric Power Enterprises
Cities continue to struggle to provide the level of goods and services demanded by their residents while federal and state support dwindles. One proposal for resolving this dilemma is privatization because it is assumed that the private sector is more efficient, at least partly as a result of more readily adopting efficiency enhancing techniques such as TQM. The electric power industry provides an excellent comparison between the public and priva…
Monasteries and Landscape in North East England
The Slave Trade
Unveiling Kate Chopin
The measurement of satisfaction with healthcare
Terry Martin Bowen
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Kuper's Kalahari kaos
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Spiritualities of Life
As an avid on-and-off yoga enthusiast, I was almost giddy to read Paul Heelas's recent book Spiritualities of Life: New Age Romanticism and Consumptive Capitalism, hoping for some scholarly ammunition to justify the purchase of the hundred-dollar yoga pants I ideologically oppose yet secretly wish to purchase. Throughout the pages, my ideological opposition eventually won out, as Heelas provides an extremely well-researched treatise on contempora…
A new methodology for accurate digital planning of archaeological sites without the aid of surveying equipment
Paul Webster. King John and Religion
If one were asked to compile a list of religiously active medieval rulers, King John of England would probably be one of the last monarchs to come to mind. Both medieval chroniclers such as Matthew Paris and modern historians such as William Stubbs have attacked John for being irreligious. Yet the plentiful records of John’s reign provide copious evidence for the king’s participation in religious activities, as Paul Webster amply demonstrates in …
A methodology for combining terrestrial and aerial photographs to create high resolution photogrammetric models of large-scale archaeological sites
Some like it hot
Infrared thermography, or thermal imaging, has been used as a remote sensing technique to determine whether subsurface features such as walls or pits generate a heat differentiation from the surrounding earth. To date, this form of remote sensing has been notoriously difficult to perform due to cost, low‐resolution thermal cameras and an inability to provide a stable aerial photographic platform. Furthermore, thermal fluctuations produced by arch…
High resolution terrestrial thermography of archaeological sites
Thermal infrared imaging, or thermography, is the remote sensing technique of detecting variations in ground temperature caused by exposed or subsurface archaeological remains either absorbing or radiating heat. Despite its conception in the 1970s, the practice has to date been rarely utilized, as a result of the high cost of the technology and the complex interplay of environmental variables. However, recent studies have demonstrated the effecti…
The Middle Holocene ‘funerary avenues’ of north-west Arabia
The desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula and Levant are criss-crossed by innumerable pathways. Across large areas of north-west Arabia, many of these pathways are flanked by stone monuments, the vast majority of which are ancient tombs. Recent radiometric dating indicates that the most abundant of these monuments, elaborate and morphologically diverse ‘pendant’ structures, were constructed during the mid-to-late third millennium BCE. Thousands…
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