A team of German archaeologists in Wadi Al Hilo in Sharjah. Work at the Bronze Age site uncovered copper smelting workshops, hammers, anvils and other tools. Photos courtesy Sharjah Department of Culture and Information
Posted on 01/07/2016 11:09:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Bronze ore smelting workshops, burial grounds, clay homes, stone tools and anvils are among the items unearthed last year in archaeological digs.
Several excavations at sites across Sharjah, including in Mleiha, Al Faya, Wadi Al Hilo, Tell Abraq and Dibba Al Hisn, revealed a wealth of discoveries dating from half a million years ago.
In Mleiha, in the central region of the emirate, a Belgian team from Ghent University found remains of homes made of clay containing pottery, as well as burial grounds...
Carbon testing showed the finds dated back between 8,000BC and the Islamic era, the authority said, though it did not provide further details.
An American team from Bryn Mawr College is also continuing work in Sharjah’s Tell Abraq, near the border with Umm Al Quwain, which has archeological sites dating back to between 3,000BC and the Stone Age.
There are also ongoing excavations by a Japanese team from Kanazawa University at a site in Dibba Al Hisn. Already they have learnt that trade and commerce connected the area with other parts of the world.
Excavations in Al Faya mountains and Suhaila have also unearthed stone tools that add valuable information to the history of human beings in the area. According to the authority, the tools found date as far back as up to half a million years ago.
Teams from the Department of Antiquities also worked on several sites in the central and eastern regions of the emirate.
In Umm Al Quwain, teams of archaeologists found a site with about 500 tombs dating back 2,000 years at Ed-Dur, one of the largest archaeological sites in the country. Excavations also uncovered pearls, iron and bronze arrowheads, pottery and glassware. The antiquities found at Ed-Dur are being restored and will go on display at the Umm Al Quwain Museum.
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A team of German archaeologists in Wadi Al Hilo in Sharjah. Work at the Bronze Age site uncovered copper smelting workshops, hammers, anvils and other tools. Photos courtesy Sharjah Department of Culture and Information
Well, archaeology in Sharjah is at least interesting, as opposed to everything else in that Emirate...
Sounds like the only things headed for the museum are from late antiquity, and that’s probably only because there is so little of interest from the muzzie era.
I wonder what these cities are from? Maybe related to Dilmun and as connector ports between Mesopotamia and the Harappan civilisation?
Perhaps the late antiquity remains are, tombs are mentioned dating about 2000 years old. 10,000 years ago would be Neolithic.
Sounds good.
Well, clearly not barren. The history here is probably only just being scratched.
What eras did she excavate, just curious?
Fond memories of those days. I used to proofread her essays etc for her at the time, as English isn't her first language. She's Polish and there's no equivalent of 'a' or 'the' in Slavic languages, so she used to write, say, a 2000 word essay up to the word limit, then I'd go back in and add all the missing 'a' and 'the' and she'd be over the limit hehe. Used to drive her crazy :-)
8000 bc AND the Islamic era? Quite a big time gap there.didn’t the Islamic Era begin around 660 AD?
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No, you don’t have to have headcover there right now... was in Sharjah a year ago...
I think ancient Sumer and their city of Ur still leads the pack on antiquities.
Goblekli Tepe is over twice as old as Sumer. :')
——Already they have learnt that trade and commerce connected the area with other parts of the world.——
“Distance was not a problem” Stephen Lekson
Further, trade and commerce over long distances is as important a trait now as it has been for millennia
Isolation is not a human trait
yes but, fond memories of Arabs are viewed here by most with disfavor in spite of the reality of the memory
a fond memory just doesn’t jive with the FR dogma of acceptable belief
I thought Sumer and Ur went back to 7,000 BC. By the way have you seen the artifacts recovered by Wooley of U. Penn? Fabulous.
She had a team of 5 diggers working for her and not one took objection to doing what they were told by a young European woman (she was 28 at the time) and they were very pleasant. Of course, they were getting paid, but she always says felt absolutely safe with them.
In fact they thought she was too skinny and kept bringing her food they though she might like to try ;-)
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