Roman Garba

Czech Academy of Sciences

Roman Garba is affiliated with the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Institutes of Archaeology in Prague and Brno. He holds a PhD in Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies from the University of Naples L’Orientale in Italy. He led the TSMO Expedition (Trilith Stone Monuments of Oman) and is currently heading the ARDUQ Project (Archaeological Landscape & Environmental Dynamics of Duqm and Nejd). Through fieldwork in Oman, Western Asia, Europe and East Africa, his research covers Arabian archaeology, the early human dispersals from Africa to Eurasia, and Quaternary dating methods.

BOOKS BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR

Hinterland Monuments of Ancient Nomads

Roman Garba

The Archaeological Heritage of Oman 15

This pioneering study explores 2000-year-old trilith monuments in Southeastern Arabia through analysis of 921 sites. It uncovers their wide distribution, early origins (410 BCE), and roles in mobility, ritual, and ancestor cults. Spatio-temporal data reveals shifting cultural patterns, linking triliths to ancient nomadic lifeways. READ MORE

Hardback: £55.00 | eBook: £16.00

In the Shadow of the Ancestors: The Prehistoric Foundations of the Early Arabian Civilization in Oman

ed. Roman Garba

This book, first published in 2007, offered the first and only summary of decades of archaeological research in the Oman Peninsula. The original eleven chapters are expanded and enhanced in this new edition by a number of new ‘windows’, written by a new generation of scholars, in order to include more recent research and interpretations. READ MORE

Paperback: £88.00 | eBook: £16.00