Archaeological excavation on Marawah Island

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Make a virtual visit to our ongoing archaeological excavations of a Late Stone Age village on Marawah Island. You can follow the excavation via my Facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/mark.j.beech

or via our blog on Twitter at:
https://twitter.com/abudhabiturath

These are continuing excavations at the site of MR11. The site has been radiocarbon dated to between the mid 6th to mid 5th millennium BC.

For more information about the previous work carried out at the site, please read:

Beech M., R. Cuttler, D. Moscrop, H. Kallweit & J. Martin. 2005. New evidence for the Neolithic settlement of Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies  35: 37-56.

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