Heading for the Straits of Hormuz, an‘Ubaid site in the Emirate of Ajman (U.A.E.)

Haerinck, Ernie

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1991.tb00020.x

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“…This date is corroborated by the 'Ubaid pottery recovered from the same site. A possible Huwayyan foliate type I, found on site P117 in Sharjah (46), has been dated on the basis of some 'Ubaid 2-3 sherds to the fifth millennium BC (47). Another possible Huwayyan foliate of this type has been recovered from layer 1 at Wadi Wutayya in northeast Oman and is dated to 5555i65 BP.…”

Section: The Chronological Distribution Of Arrowheads and Huwayyan Fomentioning

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Human population groups and the distribution of lithic arrowheads in the Arabian Gulf

Spoor

1997

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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The distribution of lithic implements in the Arabian Gulf suggests two regions, each using a specific set of tools. It is argued here that this distinct pattern is the result of relations on various levels between several human population groups and not solely of ecological adaptions. Consequently, these contacts between indigenous groups might be held responsible, among others, for distributing goods, like 'Ubaid pottery, initially brought along by Mesopotamian visitors from the Central Gulf down to the Lower Gulf.

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Section: The Chronological Distribution Of Arrowheads and Huwayyan Fomentioning

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Human population groups and the distribution of lithic arrowheads in the Arabian Gulf

Spoor

1997

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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“…There is a noticeable spike in settlement activity around the shoreline of the Gulf between 8,500 and 6,000 years ago, depicted in Stage IV of figure 5. In particular, the millennium lasting from 7500 to 6500 cal BP witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of archaeological sites around the basin from approximately 10 to more than 60 (Beech and Shepherd 2001;Beech et al 2005;Biagi 2006;Carter 2006;Diedrich 2006;Haerinck 2007;Howard Carter 1972;Inizan 1978Inizan , 1980Masry 1997;McClure and Al-Shaikh 1993;Uerpmann and Uerpmann 1996). Although part of that jump in settlement may be a shift from ephemeral hunting camps to more sedentary occupations with permanent architectural structures, thus, greater archaeological visibility, other indications in the material record suggest that the inhabitants of the region underwent a fundamental demographic transformation.…”

Section: Middle Holocene Settlement Activity In Eastern Arabiamentioning

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New Light on Human Prehistory in the Arabo-Persian Gulf Oasis

Rose¹

2010

Current Anthropology

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The emerging picture of prehistoric Arabia suggests that early modern humans were able to survive periodic hyperarid oscillations by contracting into environmental refugia around the coastal margins of the peninsula. This paper reviews new paleoenvironmental, archaeological, and genetic evidence from the Arabian Peninsula and southern Iran to explore the possibility of a demographic refugium dubbed the "Gulf Oasis," which is posited to have been a vitally significant zone for populations residing in southwest Asia during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. These data are used to assess the role of this large oasis, which, before being submerged beneath the waters of the Indian Ocean, was well watered by the Tigris, Euphrates, Karun, and Wadi Batin rivers as well as subterranean aquifers flowing beneath the Arabian subcontinent. Inverse to the amount of annual precipitation falling across the interior, reduced sea levels periodically exposed large portions of the Arabo-Persian Gulf, equal at times to the size of Great Britain. Therefore, when the hinterlands were desiccated, populations could have contracted into the Gulf Oasis to exploit its freshwater springs and rivers. This dynamic relationship between environmental amelioration/desiccation and marine transgression/ regression is thought to have driven demographic exchange into and out of this zone over the course of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene, as well as having played an important role in shaping the cultural evolution of local human populations during that interval. For Dilmun, the land of my lady's heart, I will create long waterways, rivers and canals, whereby water will flow to quench the thirst of all beings and bring abundance to all that lives. (The promise of Enki the Lord of Sweet Waters to Ninhursag the Earth Mother, from the Sumerian creation myth "Enki and Ninhursag"; Kramer 1945) Introduction: Out of Africa and Into Arabia? The investigation presented in this paper commences with the question of human expansion from Africa into Arabia during the Late Pleistocene (128,000-12,000 BP). Scholars often envision South Arabia as a population corridor, drawing on evidence from archaeozoology (

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“…3). It was probably an island originally in the middle of a lagoon which has since dried up (1). The island's western and eastern sides rise sharply to approximately 4 m above the surrounding plain.…”

Section: Hamriyah and Its Findsmentioning

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An ^cUbaid site in the Emirate of Sharjah (U.A.E.)

Jasim¹

1996

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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Heading for the Straits of Hormuz, an‘Ubaid site in the Emirate of Ajman (U.A.E.)

Cited by 9 publications

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Human population groups and the distribution of lithic arrowheads in the Arabian Gulf

Human population groups and the distribution of lithic arrowheads in the Arabian Gulf

New Light on Human Prehistory in the Arabo-Persian Gulf Oasis

An ^cUbaid site in the Emirate of Sharjah (U.A.E.)

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Heading for the Straits of Hormuz, an‘Ubaid site in the Emirate of Ajman (U.A.E.)

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Human population groups and the distribution of lithic arrowheads in the Arabian Gulf

Human population groups and the distribution of lithic arrowheads in the Arabian Gulf

New Light on Human Prehistory in the Arabo-Persian Gulf Oasis

An cUbaid site in the Emirate of Sharjah (U.A.E.)

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