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Third‐Millenniurn and Later Pottery From Abu Dhabi Airport
Author(s) -
CARDI BEATRICE
Publication year - 1997
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.1600-0471.1997.tb00151.x
Subject(s) - abu dhabi , pottery , archaeology , ancient history , geography , period (music) , settlement (finance) , history , art , metropolitan area , world wide web , computer science , payment , aesthetics
Surface pottery collected from a site on Abu Dhabi airport indicated sporadic occupation from the Hafit period, c. 3100–2700 BC, with maximum settlement in the second half of the third millennium BC. The ceramics, which could be related both to the coastal Umm an‐Nar culture and to the sequence established at Hili 8 in Period II, included wares of probably Mesopotamian and Eastern Arabian origin. The site was unused throughout most of the second millennium BC and the Iron Age but pottery of first century BC‐second century AD date suggested that it may have served as a point of entry or transit at that time, the first to be recognised in the coastal area of Abu Dhabi.