(1992-2006)

Last update:  27 June 2009

**NEWS**

24 June 2009
Pioneer who dug up UAE’s past honoured (Source: The National)



Read the Press Stories...

29 March 2009
Ancient secrets unearthed (Source: The National)

13 March 2009
A mystery lurks in dugong bones (Source: The National)

December 2007
Read an interview with Dr Mark Beech entitled Digging in the Dirt published in Etihad Inflight magazine (pdf, 1.9 MB)

Read the New Publications...

Mark Beech, Marjan Mashkour, Matthias Huels and Antoine Zazzo. 2009 (in press). Prehistoric camels in south-eastern Arabia: the discovery of a new site in Abu Dhabi's Western Region, United Arab Emirates. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 39: 39-52.

Mark Beech. 2009 (in press). Archaeological discoveries on Sir Bani Yas Island,
Abu Dhabi Emirate. Paper presented at the National Center for Documentation and Research 40th Anniversary Conference, "New Perspectives on Recording UAE History” (23-25 November 2008). National Center for Documentation and Research, Abu Dhabi.

Mark Beech, Richard Cuttler, Derek Moscrop, Heiko Kallweit and John Martin. 2008. Excavations at the Neolithic Settlement of MR11 on Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: 2004 Season. Pages 25-53. In: P. Hellyer and M. Ziolkowski (eds.), Emirates Heritage Vol.2 - Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Symposium on Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Emirates and of the Symposium on the History of the Emirates, Al Ain, 2004. Zayed Center for Heritage and History, Al Ain.

Heiko Kallweit, Mark Beech and Walid Yasin Al-Tikriti. 2008. New Neolithic sites in the Rub al-Khali: survey and excavations at Umm az-Zamul - the 2004 season. Pages 6-24. In: P. Hellyer and M. Ziolkowski (eds.), Emirates Heritage Vol.2 - Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Symposium on Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Emirates and of the Symposium on the History of the Emirates, Al Ain, 2004. Zayed Center for Heritage and History, Al Ain.

Mark Beech, Peter Hogarth and Carl Phillips. 2008. Zooarchaeological Evidence for Trade in Marine Resources in South-East Arabia. Pages 329-335. In: E. Olijdam and R.H. Spoor (eds.), Intercultural relations between South and Southwest Arabia. Studies in Commemoration of E.C.L. During Caspers (1934-1996). British Archaeological Reports International Series 1826. Society for Arabian Studies Monographs no.7. Archaeopress, Oxford. [ to download this article click here (426 Kb, pdf) ].

Sophie Méry, Vincent Charpentier and Mark Beech. 2008. First evidence of shell fish-hook technology in the Gulf. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 19 (1): 15-21. [ Click here for more details, and to download this article in Acrobat .pdf format click here (337 Kb) ].

Ghanim Wahida, Walid Yasin Al-Tikriti and Mark Beech. 2008. Barakah: a Middle Palaeolithic site in Abu Dhabi emirate. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 38: 55-64 [ Click here for more details, and to download this article in Acrobat .pdf format click here (1.15 MB) ].