Paul Alan Yule
Paul Alan Yule ( born August 18, 1947 in Minneapolis ) is an archaeologist and professor in Heidelberg.
Life and work
Paul Yule studied at the University of Minnesota, at New York University, the University of Marburg and habilitated at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. Since 1990 he teaches there. His work focuses in Arabia and South Asia, using scientific methods, especially in geoinformatics.
Early Cretan Seals Yule dissertation (1981 ) classified and dated the seal of the Early and Middle Bronze Age in Crete.
Starting in 1982, Yule was dedicated to the archeology in Oman. One of these studies deals with about 80 funeral storms in Jaylah on the Jebel Akhdar, which are dated to around 3000 BC. Pre-Islamic cemeteries in Samad al - Shan enabled insights to the centuries around the beginning of recorded time. They contain findings of different pre-Islamic periods. In another project, together with Gerd Weisgerber metal finds were cataloged and evaluated from a mass grave of Umm an-Nar period. It is the largest hoard of the Middle East and mainly consists of finds from the Early Iron Age. A burial ground in Amlah / al - Fuwaydah lit another so-called late Iron Age in the Sultanate
In the 1980s, cataloged and evaluated the Yule copper artifacts of the so-called Copper Hoard Culture for the first time by European research methods. Many of these discoveries were made in the convent school Kanya Gurukul Arya Samaj sect in the Narela / Haryana. These seem to have no functional purpose and may serve as offerings. Yule studies Archaeometallurgy he carried out in collaboration with the German Mining Museum.
A finding from the Metal Age cemetery in Sankarjang / Orissa could be the earliest musical instrument of South Asia. He documented a prehistoric fortress in Sisupalgarh / Orissa with the help of laser scanning, ground penetrating radar and GPS coordinates. Yule documented from 2001 to 2004 in India more ancient fortifications, particularly in the states of Orissa and Chhattisgarh.
1998-2011 headed the Yule Zafar Expedition of the University of Heidelberg in Yemen. In 2002, the local museum was renovated under his guidance and refurbished with the support of the Yemeni Antiquities. Focus of this work is the Late Antique Society, vol. 29, Wiesbaden, 2013, ISSN 0417-2442, ISBN 978-3-447-06935-9. Together with Laura Pecchioli and Fawzi Muhammed Zafar he designed the Virtual Museum. Numerous sculptures from the excavation and from the Museum Zafar form a basis for the development of styles of this era in Altsüdarabien. A 1.70 m high relief figure of Zafar he interprets as king representation.
Writings (selection )
- Early Cretan Seals. A Study of Chronology. ( = Marburger studies on pre-and early history. Vol. 4). P. of Saverne, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0490-0, urn: nbn: de: bsz :16- diglit - 30446th
- Metalwork of the Bronze Age in India. ( = Prehistoric Bronze finds. Dept. 20, Vol 8). Beck, Munich, 1985, ISBN 3-406-30440-0, urn: nbn: de: bsz :16- savifadok - 18953rd
- (Ed.): Studies in the Archaeology of the Sultanate of Oman. German Archaeological Institute - Orient Department, Rahden 1999, ISBN 3-89646-632-1, ( Oriental Archaeology, Vol 2) Online.
- The burial sites in Samad al Shan ( Sultanate of Oman) materials to a cultural history. German Archaeological Institute, Rahden 2001, ISBN 3-89646-634-8, ( Oriental Archaeology, vol. 4) Online.
- ( together with G. Weisgerber ): The Metal Hoard from Ibri / Selme, Sultanate of Oman. Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07153-9, ( Prehistoric Bronze finds XX.7 ).
- Early Historic Sites in Orissa. Delhi 2006 ISBN 81-89645-44-7, online.
- Himyar, Late Antiquity in Yemen / Late Antique Yemen. Aichwald 2007, ISBN 978-3-929290-35-6.
- Zafar, Capital of Himyar, rehabilitation of a ' Decadent ' Society, Excavations of the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg 1998-2010 in the Highlands of the Yemen. Treatises German Oriental Society, vol. 29, Wiesbaden, 2013, ISSN 0417-2442, ISBN 978-3-447-06935-9.