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

Dr. Guillaume Gernez is Associate Professor at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, co-director of the team VEPMO (Nanterre) and Director of the French Archaeological Mission in Central Oman. 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 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 co-edited the books: Aux marges de l’archéologie. Hommage à Serge Cleuziou and Le Liban. De la Préhistoire à l’Antiquité.