4to. 150 pp., frontispiece portrait, numerous b/w plates hors text, numerous figures, plans, & tables of which some folding, publisher’s original wraps, Volume V, The Ministry of National Heritage, Oman, 1979.

Synopsis

This issue contains the following studies :
I. The Sooty Falcon ( Falco concolor) in Oman: results of a breeding survey, 1978.
II. Excavations at Tawi Silaim and Tawi Sa’id in the Sharqiya. 1978.
III. Muscat in 1688 : Engelbert Kaempfer’s report and engravings.
IV. An Oman braiding technique for camel reins.
V. Recently discovered shell middens near Quriyat.
VI. The study of the city of Zafar ( al-Balid).