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• Editor’s Foreword ; In memoriam Alasdair Livingstone, 1954–2021 ; The sixteenth-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab pilots: a comparative summa orientalis? – Juan Acevedo ; Neolithic settlement patterns and subsistence strategies on Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates – Mark Jonathan Beech, Noura Hamad Al Hameli, Richard Thorburn Cuttler, Kevin Lidour, Howell Roberts, Rémy Crassard, Nurcan Yalman & Talfan Davies ; The stars in sixteenth-century nautical literature: a comparative study – Inês Bénard ; Multi-species analysis of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data from Qalʿat al-Baḥrayn– Caitlin Bonham Smith & Judith Littleton ; Petrographic analysis of ceramics from Murwab, an early Islamic site in Qatar – José C. Carvajal López, Alexandrine Guérin & Myrto Georgakopoulou ; Al-Arid, an Early Bronze Age settlement site in the interior of the Oman peninsula. Results of the second season’s excavations (2020) – Corinne Castel, Jacques É. Brochier, Olivier Barge, Blandine Besnard, Elsa Ciesielski, Lionel Darras, Yasmine Kanhoush, Georges Mouamar, Frédéric Rivière, Séverine Sanz, Margareta Tengberg & Pauline Vézy ; Traditional architecture of Ras al-Khaimah: digital mapping and characterization of a key heritage resource – David Connolly & Hana Kdolska ; New evidence from excavations at the Iron Age settlement of Shimal (Ras al-Khaimah) – Michel de Vreeze, Samater Ahmed Botan, Tibor Paluch & Stefan Weijgertse ; Late Bronze and Iron Age animal exploitation in Masāfī, Fujairah, UAE – Delphine Decruyenaere, Marjan Mashkour, Kevin Lidour, Karyne Debue, Thomas Sagory, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Julien Charbonnier & Anne Benoist ; Renewed excavations at Tell Abraq, Umm al-Quwain, 2019–2020 — insights into the site’s occupation from the mid-second millennium BC to the late pre-Islamic period – Michele Degli Esposti, Federico Borgi, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Simona Spano, Camille Abric & Rania Houssein Kannouma ; Walk the line: the 2020 field season of the Al-Mudhaybi Regional Survey – Stephanie Döpper ; Boats, horses, and moorings: maritime activities at al-Balīd in the medieval period – Alessandro Ghidoni & Alexia Pavan ; Settlement patterns in Qatar during the early Islamic period (7th–10th century) — house, mosque, and complex in the North Qatar Region – Alexandrine Guérin ; Mapping the Shimal plain, Ras al-Khaimah: introducing the Shimal Plain Palm Gardens Project – Hana Kdolska & David Connolly with contributions from Michel de Vreeze, Therese McCormick, Andrew Blair, Samatar Ahmed Botan & Tibor Paluch ; Study and mapping of wells in the oasis of al-ʿŪla (poster) – Céline Marquaire, Julien Charbonnier, Gaël Gourret, Ahmad Fraidoon Said, Vincent Bernollin & Yasmin Kanhoush ; Documentation and evaluation of maritime endangered archaeology in the Kingdom of Bahrain (the MarEA project) – Rodrigo Ortiz-Vazquez, Robert Carter, Lucy Blue & Salman Al-Mahari ; Eleventh–twelfth century — political and economic balances in the western Indian Ocean in the light of historical and ceramic evidence from the site of Banbhore/Daybul – Valeria Piacentini Fiorani & Agnese Fusaro ; The inscriptions in Ancient South Arabian script from Ḥimā: a preliminary historical and cultural appraisal – Alessia Prioletta ; From raw materials to finished products: pottery production at Sumhuram (Khor Rori, Sultanate of Oman) – Carlotta Rizzo, Stefano Pagnotta, Marco Lezzerini, Alexia Pavan & Giulia Buono ; On the root NḪY in Ancient South Arabian inscriptions: an etymological and contextual study – Irene Rossi ; Funerary archaeology in Qatar: old data and new discoveries – Ferhan Sakal, Marica Baldoni, Muna Al-Hashmi, Sara Tomei, Cristina Martinez-Labarga & Faisal Al Naimi ; Kalba: new insights into an Early Bronze Age trading post on the Gulf of Oman – Christoph Schwall, Michael Brandl, Mario Börner, Katleen Deckers, Susanne Lindauer, Ernst Pernicka, Eisa Yousif & Sabah A. Jasim ; Al Ain Museum: an ancient landscape beneath the carpark – Peter Sheehan, Timothy Power, Steve Karacic & Sophie Costa with Mohammed Khalifa, Hamad Fadel, Abdullah Al Kaabi, Ali Al Meqbali, Jaber Al Merri, Peter Magee, Anne Mortimer, Waleed Omar, Firas Othman, Dia Al Tawalbeh, Malak Al Ajou & Ona Vileikis ; Navigating the Gulf: Aḥmad b. Mājid’s poem on Gulf navigation – Eric Staples ; Foodstuffs and organic products in ancient south-east Arabia: preliminary results of ceramic lipid residue analysis of vessels from Hili 8 and Hili North Tomb A, al Ain, United Arab Emirates – Akshyeta Suryanarayan, Sophie Méry, Arnaud Mazuy & Martine Regert ; A new example of proto-hamzah in the early Islamic graffiti of Wādī al-Khirqah (poster) – Risa Tokunaga ; The Jabal al Yamh tombs (Hatta, Dubai, UAE): the architecture, spatial distribution, and reuse of prehistoric tombs in south-east Arabia – Tatiana Valente, Fernando Contreras, Bernardo Vila, Adrián Fernández, Domingo Lopez, Ahmed Mahmud, Mansour Boraik Radwan Karim, Mahra Saif Al Mansoori & Hassan Mohammed Zein ; Cross-cultural maritime technological exchange in the first-millennium Indian Ocean – Tom Vosmer ; Reconstructing a changing landscape of human activities in the Iron Age II at Saruq al-Hadid (Dubai) – Zuzanna Wygnańska, Otto Bagi, Joanna Rądkowska, Iwona Zych, Sidney Rempel, Karol Juchniewicz & Mansur Radwan Boraik ; Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 2–4 and 9–11 July 2021