Boat remains and maritime trade in the Persian Gulf during the sixth and fifth millennia BC

2006/03/01 by Robert Carter · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Maritime and Coastal Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Archaeology and Historical Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0003598x0009325x

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Abstract

Archaeological excavations in Kuwait have revealed the earliest remains anywhere of sea-going boats. The author explains these remains and the distribution of Ubaid pottery as evidence for a system of maritime exchange in the Arabian Neolithic driven by status and ceremony.

Citations

• Trade and power in the fifth and fourth millennia BC: New evidence from northern Mesopotamia
• The Neolithic origins of seafaring in the Arabian Gulf

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• Shell Middens of the Arabian Sea
• The genetic heterogeneity of Arab populations as inferred from HLA genes
• Persian Gulf [wikipedia]