Recent Excavation Results at Sa’ida Village, Failaka Island
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12181794 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hamed Almutairi (0000-0003-1885-1420, The National Council for Culture Arts and Letters Kuwait City Kuwait, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-91 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arabian archaeology and epigraphy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0905-7196 • E-ISSN: 1600-0471 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/aae.12179 |
| OpenAlex | W3183360076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
One of the least known, yet extremely important, archaeological sites in Failaka Island, off Kuwait, is Sa’ida village. A joint Gulf mission started excavation in Sa’ida in 2001. The excavations on Hill 1 then exposed the first Friday mosque discovered on Failaka and in the State of Kuwait. The material data revealed that the village dates to the late Islamic period, specifically to the end of the seventeenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the village was abandoned due to the plague epidemic that swept the region. Since 2016, four fieldwork campaign indicated that the village was inhabited in the early Islamic era in the seventh–eighth centuries and continued until the beginning of the twentieth century, with a few but long gaps. The six campaigns revealed religious and domestic buildings and were sufficient to reassess the chronology of occupation and abandonment of Sa’ida. They provided a valuable insight into the organisation of the site and the lifestyle of the population, with large courtyard houses and small one‐room buildings
Abandonment (legal · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Chronology · Excavation · Geography · Islam · Period (music · Plague (disease · Population · Sociology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Demography · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |