Settlement history in the eastern Rub al-Khali: Preliminary report of the Dubai Desert Survey (2006-2007)

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-45

  Casana, Jesse ^a   Herrmann, Jason T ^a   Qandil, Hussein Suleiman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b Department of Archaeology   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Dubai; Ground penetrating radar; Holocene climate; Iron Age; Late Stone Age; Magnetic gradiometry; Palaeolithic; Umm al Nar

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTURAL HISTORY; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HOLOCENE; PALEOLITHIC; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA; DUBAI [UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; RUB' AL KHALI; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 65449147912     PISSN: 09057196     EISSN: 16000471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0471.2008.00306.x     Document Type: Article

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