Location
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ADIAS
team and wives of former ADCO GM's visit the Rumaitha RM-7 Late
Miocene fossil site - from left to right: Simon Aspinall, Caroline
Adams, Mrs. Dunne, and Peter Hellyer (Photograph by Dr Mark Beech)
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The important
Late Miocene fossil site at Rumaitha (Site RM-7) has a sign
which indicates that it is a protected area (Photograph by Dr
Mark Beech)
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Simon
Aspinall shows some newly discovered fossil specimens at Rumaitha
Site RM-7 to Caroline Adams, Mrs Dunne and Peter Hellyer (Photograph
by Dr Mark Beech)
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The
earliest archaeology in the Rumaitha area is represented by this
fine Neolithic period flint "dagger" (Photograph by
Dr Mark Beech)
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Links
Fossil
antelope from Rumaitha. (Source: ADIAS
Newsletter February 2002).
Publications
Kallweit, H. and P. Hellyer.
2003. A flint 'dagger' from Rumaitha, Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE. Arabian
Archaeology & Epigraphy 14 (1), 1-7.
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