Umm al-Qaiwain

Location of Umm al-Qaiwain (Source: ADIAS)


View of the Umm al-Qaiwain lagoon - a large shell midden is visible in the foreground
(Photograph by Dr Mark Beech)

Links

Akab (Source: Uaeinteract.com)

Al-Dur (ed-Dur) - Abi'el - Abyatha coins - Characene coins - Coinage from ed-Dur - Drinking sets - Namord Ware - Roman glass (Source: Uaeinteract.com)

Al-Madar archaeological site (Source: Uaeinteract.com)

Map of Umm al-Qaiwain (Soce: Uaeinteract.com)

UAQ Wonder - website by Muaz Al Ali.

Umm al-Qaiwain (Source: Arabian WIldlife)

Publications

De Paepe, P., Rutten, K., Vrydaghs, L. & Haerinck, E. 2003. A petrographic, chemical and phytolith analysis of late pre-islamic ceramics from ed-Dur (Umm Al-Qaiwain, U.A.E.). In: D.T. Potts, H. Naboodah and P. Hellyer (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, 15-18 April 2001). Trident Press, London. pp. 207-228.

Faure, M., C. Guerin & M. Raimbault. 1993. L'exploitation des Siréniens à travers le temps. In: J. Desse & F. Audoin-Rouzeau. Exploitation des animaux sauvages à travers le temps, APDCA, Juan-les-Pins, France: 307-317.

Haerinck, E. 1998. More pre-Islamic coins from Southeastern Arabia, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy vol. 9 (2): 278-301.

Haerinck, E. 1998. International contacts in the southern Persian Gulf in the late 1st. c. B.C. and 1st. c. A.D.: numismatic evidence from ed-Dur (Emirate of Umm al-Qaiwain, U.A.E.), Iranica Antiqua 33: 273-302.

Haerinck, E. 2001. Excavations at ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, United Arab Emirates), vol. II: The tombs, Leuven, 430 p., Ill.

Haerinck, E. 2003. Internationalisation and Business in Southeast Arabia during the Late First Century B.C./First Centruy A.D.: Archaeological Evidence from ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, U.A.E.). In: D.T. Potts, H. Naboodah and P. Hellyer (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, 15-18 April 2001). Trident Press, London. pp. 195-206.

Hellyer, P. 1988. Archaeology in Umm al Qaiwain. Bulletin of the Emirates Natural History Group 34: 15-21.

Jousse, H. 1999. The fossil dugongs of Akab Island (Umm al-Qaiwain, United Arab Emirates): paleoenvironmental and archeozoological implications (Hélène Jousse, doctoral thesis, Centre des Sciences de la Terre, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, France).
[Abstract: The Neolithic site of Akab Island (Umm al-Qaiwain, United Arab Emirates), 6000 years old, is the oldest site containing remains of the dugong (Dugong dugon [Müller, 1776]). The fossils are very close to modern representatives of the species, and there is no criterion that allows recognition of an endemic subspecies in the Arabo-Persian Gulf. The former environment of the lagoon of Umm al-Qaiwain differs little from the modern one. This archeozoological study has yielded better understanding of the function of this site: dugong hunting seems to have been seasonal, and focused on young individuals; the bones show signs of butchering. The inhabitants of the site utilized dugong meat and oil, but certainly the hide as well. The presence of other animal remains, notably those of small ruminants and mollusks, indicates that the subsistence activities of the human populations were diversified. [Translated from French. Abstract of a doctoral thesis supervised by Claude Guérin.]

Jousse, H., M. Faure, C. Guérin, and A. Prieur, with annex by J. Desse. 2002. Exploitation des ressources marines au cours des Ve-IVe millénaires: le site à dugongs de l’Île d’Akab (Umm al-Qaiwain, Émirats Arabes Unis). Paléorient 28(1): 43-60. [Engl. summ.]

Jousse, H., and C. Guérin. 2003. Les dugongs (Sirenia, Dugongidae) de l’Holocène ancien d’Umm al-Qaiwain (Émirats Arabes Unis). Mammalia 67(3): 337-347. [Engl. summ.]

Uerpmann. H-P and Uerpmann M. 1996. Ubaid pottery in the eastern Gulf - new evidence from Umm al-Qawain (UAE). Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 7: 125-139.

White, R.L. 1989. An Analysis of Bitumen from Ad Door. Bulletin of the Emirates Natural History Group 38: 14-17.

Whitehouse, D. 1998. The University of Ghent South-East Arabian Archaeological Project. Excavations at ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, United Arab Emirates).Vol. I. The Glass Vessels. Peeters Publishing.
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Zutterman, C. 2003. The softstone vessels from ed-Dur, Umm al-Qaiwain, United Arab Emirates. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 14 (1): 81-87.

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