Archaeology of Umm An-Nar Island
... Umm an-Nar Island in relation to the 3rd-millennium BCE coastline and the airport site (based on 1985 EAD Landsat Imagery). Originally Umm an-Nar Island measured c. 3 km by 2 km (Al Tikriti 2011: 9). Today the protected archaeological ...
This volume brings together expert s in archaeology and bioarchaeology to examine continuity and change in ancient Arabian mortuary practices.
Thus, this volume provides important insights into the way of life during this critical epoch on the Oman Peninsula.
The island of Umm an-Nar vol. I: Third millennium graves. Aarhus: JASP 26/1 . Garfi, S. 1997. A Summary of Archaeological Investigations during January and February 1997 on Jazirat Balghetam. Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Frifelt K. 1995: The Island of Umm an-Nar, vol. 2. The Third Millennium Settlement. Jutland Archaeological Society Publications 26 (2), Aarhus. Frifelt, K. 2002: Did the Umm an-Nar Graves Originate in Oman? Essays on the Late Prehistory ...
... UMM AN - NAR AND JEMDET NASR OF OMAN AND THEIR RELATIONS ABROAD Plates 22-25 The Umm an - Nar culture was named after the island of Umm an - Nar off the Abu Dhabi coast , where it was first located and explored by the Danish Expedition ...
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... Umm an-Nar tombs, many of them containing multiple examples (al-Jahwari 2009: Fig. 1).They are located near settlements, often within sight ofwhere people lived and in some cases, such as at Hili, were truly monumental and made from ...
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