Advances in UAE Archaeology : : Proceedings of Abu Dhabi's Archaeology Conference 2022.

• Author: Zayed National Museum
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 pages)

New excavations conducted across the United Arab Emirates over the last few years are presented here, revealing a wealth of new data on all periods of UAE archaeology from the Palaeolithic to the recent past. Some of these discoveries fill important gaps in our knowledge, while others have fundamentally revised what we thought we knew already.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Foreword -- Stones in the landscape -- Filling in the gaps -- Understanding the late-stage Flandrian Transgression and palaeogeographic evolution of the Abu Dhabi islands using remotesensing and marine geophysics -- Funerary practices within Mortuary Complex F -- Preliminary comparative lithic analyses from the Neolithic sites of Marawah and Ghagha islands (emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE) -- Recent archaeological investigations at Umm an-Nar Island (Sas Al Nakhl) -- Kalba: Main results of the renewed fieldwork during the campaigns of 2019-2022 -- Insights on the Late Bronze Age economy in south-eastern Arabia -- Another side to the story -- 'We should build with the stones we have' -- Iron Age copper production and the 'ritual economy' of Saruq al-Hadid (Dubai, UAE) -- Cultures, technologies and environment on the Oman Peninsula -- Secrets of the shaabiyat -- The discovery of a Late Antique and Early Islamic monastery on Siniya Island, Umm Al Quwain -- The Early Islamic period in Al Ain in light of recent archaeological discoveries -- Conserving and protecting the Early Islamic Site at Ūd al-Tawba in Al Ain -- New evidence for the Early Islamic landscape of Al Ain -- The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Al Ain -- Developing a Historic Environment Record system for the management of heritage resources in the emirate of Abu Dhabi -- Historic mosque architecture in Abu Dhabi.