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Sharjah excavations unearth objects dated as early as 8,000BC
The National (UAE) ^
| January 5, 2016
| Thaer Zriqat
Posted on 01/07/2016 11:09:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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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
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01/07/2016 11:09:14 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Well, archaeology in Sharjah is at least interesting, as opposed to everything else in that Emirate...
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01/08/2016 12:16:10 AM PST
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dinodino
To: dinodino
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.
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01/08/2016 12:25:56 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: dinodino; SunkenCiv
Wasn't this part of the Bahraini satrapy of the various Persian (Achaemenid, Seleucid, etc) and I believe most of that area except for Bahrain was barren until the middle 20th century.
I wonder what these cities are from? Maybe related to Dilmun and as connector ports between Mesopotamia and the Harappan civilisation?
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01/08/2016 12:31:11 AM PST
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Cronos
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To: Cronos
Perhaps the late antiquity remains are, tombs are mentioned dating about 2000 years old. 10,000 years ago would be Neolithic.
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01/08/2016 12:34:49 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
My wife did quite a lot of exacvation work at Sharjah in the 1999 and 2000 seasons when she was studying Archaeology at University College, London. She has very fond memories of the place and the people. I'll see if I can dig out a pic or two of her there.
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01/08/2016 1:40:17 AM PST
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Da_Shrimp
To: Da_Shrimp
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01/08/2016 1:42:38 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Cronos
Well, clearly not barren. The history here is probably only just being scratched.
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01/08/2016 2:02:47 AM PST
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dinodino
To: Da_Shrimp
What eras did she excavate, just curious?
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01/08/2016 2:03:37 AM PST
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dinodino
To: dinodino
I'm not exactly sure to be honest! I'll ask her when we're at home this evening. I do know her final thesis was on the rock art of the area in the end as she became fascinated by it while she was out there.
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 :-)
To: dinodino
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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01/08/2016 3:25:25 AM PST
by
applpie
To: SunkenCiv; dinodino
Agnieszka (my wife) with one of her diggers in 1999. No headcover expected, then. I wonder if it's different there now?
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To: Da_Shrimp
No, you don’t have to have headcover there right now... was in Sharjah a year ago...
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01/08/2016 4:11:39 AM PST
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dinodino
To: SunkenCiv
I think ancient Sumer and their city of Ur still leads the pack on antiquities.
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01/08/2016 4:17:39 AM PST
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Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: Jimmy Valentine
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01/08/2016 4:23:07 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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01/08/2016 4:23:36 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
——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
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01/08/2016 4:32:05 AM PST
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
To: Da_Shrimp
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
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01/08/2016 4:35:18 AM PST
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bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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01/08/2016 4:38:25 AM PST
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Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: bert
Well she said they were great to work with
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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