Robert Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3599587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London Qatar |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9764-5814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 54 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1902 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Critical Realism in Applied Linguistics
Through conceptual and empirical means, this timely volume looks at how critical realism, a specific approach to the philosophy of science, helps uncover and refine assumptions about what constitutes valid knowledge in applied linguistics, how scholars can create it, and how applied linguistics can improve as an interdisciplinary strand of the social sciences. With contributions from leading and up-and-coming scholars in the field, the book cover…
The Distribution of Pre‐Islamic Burial Cairns in Qatar
This paper describes the results of a burial survey project in northern Qatar. This project builds on more than 60 years of archaeological investigation in Qatar that has resulted in the identification of over 2000 burial sites. Through application of remote sensing and ground‐truthing methodologies, the total number of identified burials in northern Qatar has been increased to almost 11,000 over an area of approximately 30,000 sq km. Analytical …
Eastern Arabia and the Persian Gulf in the Hellenistic and Late Antique Period
This review covers over half a millennium, ca. 300 bc to ad 250. Significant changes in settlement patterns, material culture, faith, and integration are seen across the region. All areas of eastern Arabia were engaged with the Hellenistic world through trade and cultural exchange, but this is most strongly shown in the islands of the northern and central Gulf (Failaka and Bahrain), which were politically incorporated into larger Hellenistic poli…
Storage story
Pearl Fishing in Bahrain
During preparation of content for Bahrain’s UNESCO World Heritage Site, Pearling Testimony of an Island Economy (aka the Pearling Path) new artefactual, archaeological and documentary evidence was discovered and collated that reveals the long history of pearl fishing in Bahrain, and its central role in the economy of Bahrain and the Gulf. In this paper a comprehensive presentation is given of pearls and pearl jewellery found during archaeological…
Glass ornaments in the Late Islamic period
Late Holocene development of Bubiyan Island, Kuwait
Bubiyan Island, presently a vast sabkha and salt flat in the westernmost part of the Shatt Al-Arab delta, originated ca. 4000 cal yr BP as prodelta deposits from a paleochannel of the Euphrates River that flowed into a shallow sea. Southeastern Bubiyan Island first surfaced when spits and barrier islands formed on a 1–2 m forebulge caused by heavy sediment load to the northwest; the spits and barriers delineated an incipient shoreline and shelter…
All Things Arabia
All Things Arabia: Arabian Identity and Material Culture, edited by Ileana Baird and Hülya Yagcioglu. Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World, volume 16. Brill, 2020. xvi, 269 pp., 105 colour illus. €149.00/$179.00. Hb. ISBN-13: 9789004435919. e-book ISBN-13: 9789004435926
Excavations at Samahij, Bahrain, and the implications for Christianity, Islamisation and settlement in Bahrain
The episcopal seat of Meshmahig or Mašmahig is referred to in various historical sources, such as the synods of the Church of the East of 410 and 576. These sources have been extensively explored, and it is suggested that Mašmahig can be linked to the village of Samahij in north‐east Muharraq Island, Bahrain. However, archaeological evidence for a Christian presence in Samahij, or elsewhere in Bahrain, was lacking. Excavations completed within th…
The Later Prehistory of the Shahrizor Plain, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
The Shahrizor Prehistory Project has targeted prehistoric levels of the Late Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic 4 (LC4; Late Middle Uruk) periods at Gurga Chiya (Shahrizor, Kurdistan region of northern Iraq), along with the Halaf period at the adjacent site of Tepe Marani. Excavations at the latter have produced new dietary and environmental data for the sixth millennium B.C. in the region, while at Gurga Chiya part of a burned Late Ubaid tripartite hou…
Uruk expansion or integrated development? A petrographic and geochemical perspective from Gurga Chiya, Iraqi Kurdistan
The rise and ruin of a medieval port town
Julfar was a major port town of the Persian Gulf during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD. A possession of the Hormuzi empire, it was a lucrative source of taxes and pearls, and a port of trade for northern Oman, tapping into maritime trading networks connecting the Middle East with Africa, India, Southeast Asia and China. The site is found north of modern Ras Al‐Khaimah, UAE. Julfar Al‐Nudud was previously considered to be a late suburb …
The Mesopotamian frontier of the Arabian Neolithic
The material culture of coastal Arabian Neolithic sites of the sixth–fifth millennia BC contains a range of small Mesopotamian‐style objects, in addition to Ubaid pottery. There is a significant concentration of such objects at the Kuwaiti sites, H3 and Bahra 1, with lesser amounts in the Central Gulf region and virtually none in the Lower Gulf. The combination of material and symbolic culture at the Kuwaiti sites indicates that their inhabitants…
Adaptation of heritage architecture in Al Asmakh, Doha
This paper examines the continuing legacy and occupation of Doha’s vernacular architecture of the early oil period, drawing on techniques from architecture, contemporary archaeology and anthropology. Historical and contemporary inhabitation is examined, as well as the experiences of today’s resident migrant communities. The ongoing significance of Al Asmakh’s vernacular architecture within Qatar’s heritage discourse is considered. Particular atte…
Human Interaction with the Environment in the Red Sea
Mid- to late-Holocene archaeology, environment and climate in the northeast Kurdistan region of Iraq
This work presents new data from phytolith and speleothem analyses that cover the middle to late Holocene from northeastern Iraq in the Kurdistan region. Coupling these data with previous work, we demonstrate how the region’s environment and climate developed during a time when agriculture became not only established but settlements started to transform into larger urban areas. Results demonstrate a wetter phase during the middle Holocene relativ…
The vernacular architecture of Doha, Qatar
The urban history of the Gulf states has been largely neglected, with historical studies of Qatar focusing on its political and economic development. This article presents an overview of the vernacular architecture of Doha that incorporates non-elite buildings. The life histories of these buildings tell the story of Qatar's rapid development in the 20th century and the dramatic changes to the society and urban fabric of its capital. Rapid develop…
Mapping the Growth of an Arabian Gulf Town
This paper is based on research undertaken for the Origins of Doha Project. It is a unique attempt to interrogate the construct of the Arab city against rigorously collected evidence and meticulous analysis of historical urban geography. We have found that Doha in its urban layout, physical development, architecture, and pre-oil demographics, combined its disparate cosmopolitan elements into a blend that probably typified the historic Gulf town, …
Gurga Chiya and Tepe Marani
Gurga Chiya and Tepe Marani are small, adjacent mounds located close to the town of Halabja in the southern part of the Shahrizor Plain, one of the most fertile regions of Iraqi Kurdistan. Survey and excavation at these previously unexplored sites is beginning to produce evidence for human settlement spanning the sixth to the fourth millennia, c . 5600–3300 cal. b.c . In Mesopotamian chronology this corresponds to the Late Neolithic through to Ch…
The growth of early social networks
Remembering the Sea
People create narratives of their maritime past through the remembering and forgetting of seafaring experiences, and through the retention and disposal of maritime artefacts that function mnemonically to evoke or suppress those experiences. The sustenance and reproduction of the resulting narratives depends further on effective media of intergenerational transmission; otherwise, they are lost. Rapid socio-economic transformation across Saudi Arab…
The Neolithic origins of seafaring in the Arabian Gulf
The inhabitants of the Arabian Gulf were among the world’s earliest maritime traders. Their ships sailed regularly between the Bronze Age civilizations of Mesopotamia, Bahrain and the Indus Valley, and they reached China by sea in the eighth century AD, thus bypassing the long and perilous overland Silk Road route across Central Asia. Now excavations at a coastal site in Kuwait by a team from the Institute have revealed even earlier evidence of m…
An exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial of knowledge translation strategies to support evidence-informed decision-making in local governments (The KT4LG study)
Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register (ANZCTR): ACTRN12609000953235
RCT of a client-centred, caseworker-delivered smoking cessation intervention for a socially disadvantaged population
ISRCTN: ISRCTN85202510
Beyond the Ubaid
Boat remains and maritime trade in the Persian Gulf during the sixth and fifth millennia BC
Archaeological excavations in Kuwait have revealed the earliest remains anywhere of sea-going boats. The author explains these remains and the distribution of Ubaid pottery as evidence for a system of maritime exchange in the Arabian Neolithic driven by status and ceremony
The History and Prehistory of Pearling in the Persian Gulf
The paper presents an analysis and synthesis of historical and archaeological data on pearl fishing in the Persian Gulf. The history of pearling in the region is reviewed, from the earliest possible references to the mid 20th century. Economic data from the 18th–20th centuries CE is analysed in detail, to de fine the economic course of the pearling industry during that time, and assess the impact on human settlement in the region. The archaeologi…
A comparative geochemical study of bituminous boat remains from H3, As‐Sabiyah (Kuwait), and RJ‐2, Ra's al‐Jinz (Oman)
This paper presents a geochemical analysis of fragments of bituminous amalgam from H3, As‐Sabiyah (Kuwait), and RJ‐2, Ra's al‐Jinz (Oman). The fragments bear barnacles on one side and reed impressions on the other, and are thought to have been part of the coating of reed‐bundle boats. The material from H3 dates to between 5300–4900 BC, while that of RJ‐2 dates to 2500–2100 BC. Samples from both sites were geochemically compared to archaeological …
Genes, genomes and genealogies
This article considers the impact of recent developments within the social and natural sciences on notions of race. The Human Genome Project has generated a range of debates about what it is to be human, the genetic relations between human beings and other animals and about the connections between disease and genetic populations. These debates have not been confined to geneticists and other science professionals but have flowed into wider debates…
The growth of early social networks
A geochemical study of bituminous mixtures from Failaka and Umm an‐Namel (Kuwait), from the Early Dilmun to the Early Islamic period
This paper is the last in a series presenting geochemical analyses of fragments of bituminous mixtures excavated from archaeological sites in Kuwait. The first was devoted to bituminous boat remains from the Ubaid‐related Neolithic site of H3, As‐Sabiyah, while the second dealt with bituminous amalgams from the Partho‐Sasanian site of c Akkaz, a former island now joined to the south side of Kuwait Bay. This, the third, refers to bitumen‐bearing s…
Agglomeration and regionalism
The excavation of several stratified settlements has transformed our knowledge of southeast Arabian prehistory from a series of snapshots to a more or less continuous exposure. In this paper we would like to explore the recently clarified period between c.1300 and 1100 BC (the Iron Age I period) (2). Although the existence of a discrete material culture horizon belonging to this period is now well established, there has been a reluctance on the p…
Christianity in the Gulf during the first centuries of Islam
This article re‐examines the ceramics of SBY‐9, a church and monastery site on the island of Sir Bani Yas, Abu Dhabi emirate, U.A.E. It then explores other archaeological evidence for Christianity in the Arabian Gulf and compares it to the textual data, resulting in a reconsideration of the history and activities of the Church of the East. The pottery of SBY‐9 indicates that the monastery complex was occupied some time between the second half of …
Uruk expansion or integrated development? A petrographic and geochemical perspective from Gurga Chiya, Iraqi Kurdistan
Mid- to late-Holocene archaeology, environment and climate in the northeast Kurdistan region of Iraq
This work presents new data from phytolith and speleothem analyses that cover the middle to late Holocene from northeastern Iraq in the Kurdistan region. Coupling these data with previous work, we demonstrate how the region’s environment and climate developed during a time when agriculture became not only established but settlements started to transform into larger urban areas. Results demonstrate a wetter phase during the middle Holocene relativ…
The Bushehr Hinterland Results of the First Season of the Iranian-British Archaeological Survey of Bushehr Province, November-December 2004
Compte rendu de la prospection geomorphologique et archeologique de la province de Bushehr en Iran. Issue d’un partenariat anglo-iranien, le projet poursuivait trois buts initiaux : clarifier la nature et la chronologie des implantations cotieres sur le Golfe persique ; rechercher les temoignages des contacts entre l’Iran cotier, la Mesopotamie et la peninsule arabique durant le VIe et le Ve millenaire av. J.C. ; recolter des donnees concernant l…
Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations
PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES Perspectives on Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations - Robert T Carter National Culture and the New Corporate Language for Race Relations - Clayton P Alderfer 'Whiting Out' Social Justice - Michelle Fine Making Sense of Race Relations in Organizations - David Thomas and Karen L Proudford Theories for Practice School Contexts and Learning - Linda Darling-Hammond Organizational Influences on the Achievement of Color PA…
The vernacular architecture of Doha, Qatar
The urban history of the Gulf states has been largely neglected, with historical studies of Qatar focusing on its political and economic development. This article presents an overview of the vernacular architecture of Doha that incorporates non-elite buildings. The life histories of these buildings tell the story of Qatar's rapid development in the 20th century and the dramatic changes to the society and urban fabric of its capital. Rapid develop…
Mapping the Growth of an Arabian Gulf Town
This paper is based on research undertaken for the Origins of Doha Project. It is a unique attempt to interrogate the construct of the Arab city against rigorously collected evidence and meticulous analysis of historical urban geography. We have found that Doha in its urban layout, physical development, architecture, and pre-oil demographics, combined its disparate cosmopolitan elements into a blend that probably typified the historic Gulf town, …
The rise and ruin of a medieval port town
Julfar was a major port town of the Persian Gulf during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD. A possession of the Hormuzi empire, it was a lucrative source of taxes and pearls, and a port of trade for northern Oman, tapping into maritime trading networks connecting the Middle East with Africa, India, Southeast Asia and China. The site is found north of modern Ras Al‐Khaimah, UAE. Julfar Al‐Nudud was previously considered to be a late suburb …
The Mesopotamian frontier of the Arabian Neolithic
The material culture of coastal Arabian Neolithic sites of the sixth–fifth millennia BC contains a range of small Mesopotamian‐style objects, in addition to Ubaid pottery. There is a significant concentration of such objects at the Kuwaiti sites, H3 and Bahra 1, with lesser amounts in the Central Gulf region and virtually none in the Lower Gulf. The combination of material and symbolic culture at the Kuwaiti sites indicates that their inhabitants…
Glass ornaments in the Late Islamic period
Adaptation of heritage architecture in Al Asmakh, Doha
This paper examines the continuing legacy and occupation of Doha’s vernacular architecture of the early oil period, drawing on techniques from architecture, contemporary archaeology and anthropology. Historical and contemporary inhabitation is examined, as well as the experiences of today’s resident migrant communities. The ongoing significance of Al Asmakh’s vernacular architecture within Qatar’s heritage discourse is considered. Particular atte…
Saar and its external relations
The ceramics from the Early Dilmun site of Saar, Bahrain, are examined for \nevidence of interregional exchange. The commonest variety of imported material \ncomprises Late Sorath Harappan pottery from Saurashtra, Gujarat. Small \nquantities of Mesopotamian, Southeast Arabian (Wadi Suq) and possible Indo- \nIranian pottery are also present. The evidence is correlated with that from Qala’at \nal-Bahrain, and data from other regions within the Bron…
American Indians in the Political Kingdom
This note uses information collected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to assess the quantity and quality of employment of American Indians in that agency. There is a clear-cut pattern of stratification within the BIA, with Indians restricted largely to lower-status positions. Analysis reveals that this stratification is not imply a result of application of merit standards for advancement, for Indian employees are approximately two employment…
A Catalogue of Books
Merchants and Mills
Robert Carter's Recollections of William H. Prescott
The United States Supreme Court and the issue of racial discrimination since 1940 (I)
American Indians in the Political Kingdom
This note uses information collected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to assess the quantity and quality of employment of American Indians in that agency. There is a clear-cut pattern of stratification within the BIA, with Indians restricted largely to lower-status positions. Analysis reveals that this stratification is not imply a result of application of merit standards for advancement, for Indian employees are approximately two employment…
Skilled Labour Shortages and Wage 'Roll‐out’ Effects in an Energy‐rich Region
Skilled labour shortages and wage ‘roll-out’ effects in an energy-rich region
Kid in a bin
Developing methodologies for evaluating community-wide health promotion
There has been growing recognition that health promotion programs which target whole communities are more likely to be effective in changing health behaviour. However, studies evaluating the impact of community-wide health promotion programs rarely use adequate methodology. Randomised control trials where multiple whole communities are randomly assigned to control and intervention groups are optimum if evaluators hope to validly attribute changes…
An interview with Prof. Peter Ucko, the next Director of the Institute
Multicultural Counseling Competencies
A companion volume to volume seven in the Multicultural Aspects of Counseling series, this book is designed to provide counsellors with the basic knowledge required for multicultural counselling
Personalities of Players of Dungeons and Dragons
20 men who played Dungeons and Dragons did not differ in mean scores on depression, suicidal ideation, psychoticism, extraversion, or neuroticism from unselected undergraduates
The Kuwait-British Archaeological Expedition to As-Sabiyah
The British Archaeological Expedition to Kuwait was formed in the spring of 1998 as the result of a visit to Kuwait by Harriet Crawford in November 1997. This visit took place at the invitation of the Director of the National Museum, Dr Fahad al Wohaibi. Several possible projects were discussed and permission was later granted by the Secretary-General of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters for a preliminary survey by the Expedition…
Agglomeration and regionalism
The excavation of several stratified settlements has transformed our knowledge of southeast Arabian prehistory from a series of snapshots to a more or less continuous exposure. In this paper we would like to explore the recently clarified period between c.1300 and 1100 BC (the Iron Age I period) (2). Although the existence of a discrete material culture horizon belonging to this period is now well established, there has been a reluctance on the p…
Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations
PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES Perspectives on Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations - Robert T Carter National Culture and the New Corporate Language for Race Relations - Clayton P Alderfer 'Whiting Out' Social Justice - Michelle Fine Making Sense of Race Relations in Organizations - David Thomas and Karen L Proudford Theories for Practice School Contexts and Learning - Linda Darling-Hammond Organizational Influences on the Achievement of Color PA…
The Kuwait-British Archaeological Expedition to As-Sabiyah
The second season of excavation at the Ubaid-related site of H3 took place in October 1999 and lasted for four weeks. The site lies on a low peninsula, the Jazirat Dubaij, at the north end of Kuwait bay. The work was carried out jointly by the British Archaeological Expedition to Kuwait and a team from the National Museum of Kuwait under the direction of Dr Fahad al Wohaibi. The work of the Expedition was made possible by the generosity of many p…
Encounter with Enlightenment
Saar and its external relations
The ceramics from the Early Dilmun site of Saar, Bahrain, are examined for \nevidence of interregional exchange. The commonest variety of imported material \ncomprises Late Sorath Harappan pottery from Saurashtra, Gujarat. Small \nquantities of Mesopotamian, Southeast Arabian (Wadi Suq) and possible Indo- \nIranian pottery are also present. The evidence is correlated with that from Qala’at \nal-Bahrain, and data from other regions within the Bron…
The Kuwait-British Archaeological Expedition to As-Sabiyah
The Neolithic origins of seafaring in the Arabian Gulf
The Kuwait-British Archaeological Expedition to As-Sabiyah
A comparative geochemical study of bituminous boat remains from H3, As‐Sabiyah (Kuwait), and RJ‐2, Ra's al‐Jinz (Oman)
This paper presents a geochemical analysis of fragments of bituminous amalgam from H3, As‐Sabiyah (Kuwait), and RJ‐2, Ra's al‐Jinz (Oman). The fragments bear barnacles on one side and reed impressions on the other, and are thought to have been part of the coating of reed‐bundle boats. The material from H3 dates to between 5300–4900 BC, while that of RJ‐2 dates to 2500–2100 BC. Samples from both sites were geochemically compared to archaeological …
The History and Prehistory of Pearling in the Persian Gulf
The paper presents an analysis and synthesis of historical and archaeological data on pearl fishing in the Persian Gulf. The history of pearling in the region is reviewed, from the earliest possible references to the mid 20th century. Economic data from the 18th–20th centuries CE is analysed in detail, to de fine the economic course of the pearling industry during that time, and assess the impact on human settlement in the region. The archaeologi…
The Bushehr Hinterland Results of the First Season of the Iranian-British Archaeological Survey of Bushehr Province, November-December 2004
Compte rendu de la prospection geomorphologique et archeologique de la province de Bushehr en Iran. Issue d’un partenariat anglo-iranien, le projet poursuivait trois buts initiaux : clarifier la nature et la chronologie des implantations cotieres sur le Golfe persique ; rechercher les temoignages des contacts entre l’Iran cotier, la Mesopotamie et la peninsule arabique durant le VIe et le Ve millenaire av. J.C. ; recolter des donnees concernant l…
Boat remains and maritime trade in the Persian Gulf during the sixth and fifth millennia BC
Archaeological excavations in Kuwait have revealed the earliest remains anywhere of sea-going boats. The author explains these remains and the distribution of Ubaid pottery as evidence for a system of maritime exchange in the Arabian Neolithic driven by status and ceremony
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