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Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, Neolithic house.

Location:

  • United Arab Emirates, Ghurbah
  • geo:24.283792,53.265823
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -3300 / -800

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=36120

Annotations

Group of 160 hearths located SW of the village of Ghubba. These appear to be of various dates. Radiocarbon dates indicate 1=Bronze age, 3= Iron age and 1=Sasanian.

See:

  1. http://www.adias-uae.com/marawah.html
  2. Richard Cuttler, New evidence for the Neolithic settlement of Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in:Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies. Vol. 35 , Archaeopress, Oxford 2005, p. 37-56"
  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 XI

Neolithic site, MR 11.

Marawah Island, MR IX

Bronze age site.


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