Excavations at H3 As-Sabiyah, Kuwait
Posted on 02/13/2007 11:33:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A team of Kuwaiti archaeologists excavating an archaeological site in Sabiyah on Monday discovered shards of pottery and two burial mounds -- all dating back to the Bronze Age, says Sultan Duwaish, Senior Archaeologist at the Kuwait Museum and Antiquities Department. This comes after archaeologists late last year discovered a number of burial mounds, a vast majority of them dating back to the Bronze Age. The mounds found in Kuwait are similar to those which have been found in some of the GCC countries, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar... Archaeologists last year found human skeletal remains in three burial mounds while some of the mounds contained pieces of pottery dating back to Hellenistic period as well as a large number of beads... Sultan observed that the two pottery pieces were discovered from burial mounds and are creamish in hue, saying the pottery shards in question do not resemble in any way those that were found by archaeologists last year.
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Excavations at H3 As-Sabiyah, Kuwait
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They had the Bronze Age there?
My view is that the terms Bronze Age, Iron Age, etc, are not too useful, and even counterproductive and inaccurate. Regardless, Bronze came into use and fell out of use at different times in different places.
I was under the impression that it is still Stone Age there.
No later than the Middle Ages, from a social standpoint. ;')
Oh, you mean the mesolithic, the Middle Stone Age.
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