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- Title
Discoveries of Neolithic prehistoric sites at Pleistocene carbonate rock shelters on the east coast of the UAE.
- Authors
Diedrich, Cajus G.
- Abstract
Three newly discovered prehistoric sites on the east coast of the United Emirates (UAE) are described. All are located on surfaces of Pleistocene carbonates or rock shelters that are generally rare along the eastern coast of the Gulf of Oman. Aqqah 1 (Le Meridien al Aqqah Beach Resort), the most important and best preserved of these sites, is a partially collapsed rock shelter with an exposed section, lithic finds and marine molluscs. Deriving an exact date from the material present is difficult because of a lack of comparanda. A bifacial fletched arrowhead made of yellow jasper and the lithic debris of five different raw materials as well as an undecorated ceramic fragment might suggest a date in the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. The presence of many marine bivalves and snails with operculae, which differ from recent coastal species, indicates the collection and consumption of living molluscs by the prehistoric population of Aqqah. Nearby burials may be related to the rock shelters.
- Subjects
UNITED Arab Emirates; NEOLITHIC Period; PLEISTOCENE-Holocene boundary; CARBONATE rocks; SEDIMENTARY rocks; MINES &; mineral resources
- Publication
Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy, 2006, Vol 17, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
0905-7196
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0471.2006.00263.x