Timeline

Links to the Palaeontology and Archaeology of the UAE

Late Miocene period (6-8 million years ago)
Abu Dhabi 8 Million Years Ago - An exhibition of Late Miocene Fossils from the Western Region (Source: ADIAS)
Miocene vertebrate fossils of Arabia (Source: Natural History Museum, London)
Late Miocene Fossils of Abu Dhabi (Source: ADIAS)
Mleisa - ADIAS Guide (Source: ADIAS)
Ruwais - ADIAS Guide (Source: ADIAS)
New fossil pictures from Ruwais (Source: ADIAS)
Conservation of the elephant tusk from Ruwais (Source: natural-history-conservation.com)
Reconstructing Stegotetrabelodon syrticus (Source: ADIAS)
Model of a 6-8 million year old Late Miocene elephant, Stegotetrabelodon syrticus (Source: ADIAS)

Ubaid period (5500-3800 BC)
Dalma - ADIAS Guide (Source: ADIAS)
Marawah site MR11 - ADIAS Guide (Source: ADIAS)
Stone Age (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Flint Artefacts (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Stone Age - arabic version (Source: Sharjah Archaeological Museum)

Spaetglaziale und fruehholozaene Besiedlungsgeschichte SO-Arabiens (Source: Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (s. auch Fak. für Kulturwissenschaften), University of Tubingen research projects)

Hafit period (3200-2600 BC)
Jebel Hafit - ADIAS Guide (Source: ADIAS)
Hafit horizon (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Bida Bint Saud (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Hafit Cairns (Source: Al Ain Museum)

Umm al-Nar period (2600-2000 BC)
Karen Frifelt publications on Umm an-Nar (Source: Aarhus University Press)
Umm al-Nar - ADIAS Guide (Source: ADIAS)
Umm an-Nar Culture (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Umm an-Nar: The Settlement and the Cemetery (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Umm an-Nar by D.M. Corfield (Source: Bulletin of the Emirates Natural History Group, No.4, March 1978 - Al Ain chapter of the Emirates Natural History Group)

Abu Dhabi International Airport - ADIAS Guide (Source: ADIAS)

Umm an-Nar period - Ras al-Khaimah museum collections (Source: RAK museum)
Shimal - A new Umm al-Nar tomb UNAR 2 (Source: RAK museum)
Shimal - Human skeletal remains from the new Umm al-Nar tomb at Shimal (Source: RAK museum)

Hili Grand Tomb - important discoveries (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Hili Grand Tomb - related sites (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Hili Settlement (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Tomb N at Hili (Source: Al Ain Museum)

Bronze Age - arabic version (Source: Sharjah Archaeological Museum)

Wadi Suq period (2000-1600 BC)
Late Bronze Age (1600-1250 BC)
Wadi Suq period - Ras al-Khaimah museum collections (Source: RAK museum)
Qarn al-Harf - A new Wadi Suq tomb (Source: RAK museum)
Wadi Suq Culture (Source: Al Ain Museum)
2nd millennium BC gold pendants (Source: Al Ain Museum)

Iron Age (1250-300 BC)

Period I (1200-1000 BC)
Period II (1000-500 BC)
Period III (500-300 BC)

Excavations at Muweilah (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) 1994-2004 (Source: Prof. Peter Magee, Bryn Mawr College, USA)
Iron Age - Ras al-Khaimah museum collections (Source: RAK museum)
Iron Age (Source: Al Ain Museum)
The falaj system (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Wadi Hamam (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Iron Age Villages at Hili and Rumailah (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Bida Bint Saud (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Iron age - arabic version (Source: Sharjah Archaeological Museum)

Late pre-Islamic Period, Hellenistic and Parthian Period (300 BC to 300 AD)
Late Pre-Islamic period - Ras al-Khaimah museum collections (Source: RAK museum)
Hellenistic Period (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Silver Coin (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Greater Arabia - arabic version (Source: Sharjah Archaeological Museum)

Sasanian Period (300-632 AD)
Kush - A Parthian, Sasanian and early-Islamic tell in the Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, UAE (Source: RAK museum)
Kush - detailed report (Source: RAK museum)
Pre-Islamic Period (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Greater Arabia - arabic version (Source: Sharjah Archaeological Museum)

Abbasid Period (750-1250 AD)
As Safarfir - An Early Islamic Copper Mine in the UAE (Source: Al Ain chapter of Emirates Natural History Group)
Islamic era (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Old Falaj (Source: Al Ain Museum)

Later Islamic Period (14th-19th century AD)
Islamic Julfar - Ras al-Khaimah museum collections (Source: RAK museum)
Falayah - The summer residence of the Quwasim in Ras al-Khaimah, U.A.E (Source: RAK museum)
Islamic era (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Coin Hoard (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Sharjah Islamic Museum

Recent History (19th-20th century AD)
The Sultan or Eastern Fort (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Ethnography - story of the UAE people in the pre-oil era (Source: Al Ain Museum)
Sharjah Heritage Museum

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