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Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, Neolithic house.

Location:

  • United Arab Emirates, Liffah
  • geo:24.284037,53.227882
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -5250 / -5000

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=36119

Annotations

Neolithic (Late Stone Age) site on a low rocky coastal promontory at the SW end of Marawah. This site dates to the Late sixth millennium BC.

See:

  1. https://www.sott.net/article/341498-Abu-Dhabi-archaeologists-unearth-rare-well-preserved-7500-year-old-Stone-Age-house
  2. http://www.adias-uae.com/marawah.html
  3. Mark Beech, Richard Cuttler, Derek Moscrop, Heiko Kallweit,  New evidence for the Neolithic settlement of Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 35, 2005, pp. 37-56

Nearby

Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, MR X (1 km)

Neolithic settlement

Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, MR XII (2 km)

Necropolis MR12.

Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, MR XI (2 km)

Neolithic site, MR 11.


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