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Location:

  • United Arab Emirates, Ghurbah
  • geo:24.284042,53.256401
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -5900~ / -4500~

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=36121

Annotations

The site MR XI was occupied between the earliest part of the sixth millennium to the mid-fifth millennium BC. It contains a group of seven mounds located SW of Ghubba on the NW tip of a limestone ridge.

See:

  1. Mark Jonathan Beechet all. Excavations at MR11 on Marawah Island (Abu Dhabi, UAE): new insight into the architecture and planning of Arabian Neolithic settlements and early evidence for pearling, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy Volume 31, Issue 1 Special Issue: The Neolithic of the Arabian Peninsula Guest Editor: Rémy Crassard  2020
  2. 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
  3. http://www.adias-uae.com/marawah.html
  4. http://www.adias-uae.com/mr11.html

Nearby

Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi MR II

Bronze Age settlement. MR IX. Emirates.

Marawah Island, MR IX (1 km)

Bronze age site.


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