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Excavations at Muweilah. Preliminary Report on the First Two Seasons
Author(s) -
MAGEE PETER
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
arabian archaeology and epigraphy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.384
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1600-0471
pISSN - 0905-7196
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0471.1996.tb00101.x
Subject(s) - excavation , subsistence agriculture , archaeology , prehistory , settlement (finance) , context (archaeology) , geography , human settlement , arid , history , agriculture , geology , paleontology , world wide web , computer science , payment
Two seasons of excavation have been completed at the site of Muweilah in the United Arab Emirates. The excavation is prompted by a desire to examine the manner in which humans inhabited arid regions in the past. The project seeks to understand the subsistence practices at this site within the broader context of settlement patterns in late prehistoric southeastern Arabia and to examine some of the biases and prior assumptions concerning human occupation of environments which are often considered hostile and marginal. The results obtained in the first two seasons of excavations are presented below and they indicate that a positive contribution will be made towards achieving these objectives.