Guillaume Gernez

Mudhmar: an Iron Age Cultic Site in Central Oman (2024 grant award)

Excavations at Ra’s al-Jinz (Sultanate of Oman): The Coastal Sharquiyyah From the Neolithic to the Iron Age (2016 grant award)

Dr. Guillaume Gernez is Associate Professor at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and former researcher at Sultan Qaboos University. After a PhD in ancient weaponry, he was researcher at the French Insitute for the Near East, where his main researches focused on the Levant during the Bronze Age, especially material culture and funerary practices. From 2011, he focuses on Eastern Arabia during the Bronze and Iron Ages. He directed and co-directed excavations in Oman, at Adam (protohistoric necropolises), Jabal Mudhmar (Early Iron Age cultic site), and Salut (Early Bronze Age tower). He also took part in numerous excavations, surveys and studies in Oman, Syria, and Lebanon.   

He edited the 2014-2015 issue of the journal Archaeology and History in Lebanon: “The Final Journey: Funerary customs in Lebanon from Prehistory to the Roman Period” and he has written, co-authored and co-edited books relating to the archaeology of the Ancient Near East and Arabia, including Les armes du Proche-Orient ancien. Des origines à 2000 av. J.-C., Taming the great desert. Adam in the Prehistory of Oman, and Early Iron Age Metal-Working Workshop in the Empty Quarter, Sultanate of Oman.