This is an article about pottery analysis and the nature of A1 ' Ubaid contact with Saudi Arabia. The discovery of 'Ubaid sites in Saudi Arabia has been of the greatest interest to Middle Eastern archaeologists; neutron activation and petrographic analyses of the pottery from these sites, published here, have yielded unexpected results, with profound implications for the or@ins of civilization in Sumer.
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