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Department of Archaeology
University of York
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Historic Environment Department
Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority


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Beech, M. 2012. Review of XTACH 2011 - International Conference on the Use of X-ray (and related) Techniques in Arts and Cultural Heritage. e-conservation magazine 23, pp. 22-30 [ click here to visit the online version, or click here to download a pdf version (1.8 MB)]. * JUST PUBLISHED *



Environmental Atlas of Abu Dhabi Emirate.
Published by the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi and Motivate Publishing, Dubai. For more info and to order, click here. * JUST PUBLISHED *


Above, a reconstruction of the Mleisa 1 elephant herd, based upon Stegotretrabelodon as the track maker. © Mauricio Antón. Read our recently published article about the Mleisa trackway in the Royal Society journal, Biology Letters, or click here to visit the website which provides supplementary material. * JUST PUBLISHED *



DIscovering that bananas grow in Arabia, Salalah, Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman - February 2012



Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, presented Dr Mark Beech with the Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Prize for Natural History at his Majlis in Abu Dhabi on 22 June 2009, as a reward for his contributions to UAE archaeology and natural history.



Visiting the Giant Pandas at Beijing Zoo, June 2009.






  



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**NEWS**
11 March 2012
World Heritage Experts Meet in Al Ain to discuss the definition of ‘Integrity’ for Cultural Heritage (Source: ADACH)

World Heritage experts meet in Al Ain to discuss the definition of Integrity for Cultural Heritage (Source: ameinfo.com)

9 March 2012
Les plus anciennes traces d'un groupe d'éléphants (Source: Pour la Science.fr)

8 March 2012
Desert Trackways: 7-Million-Year-Old Clues to Elephant Social Complexity (Source: npr - blogs)

6 March 2012
Ancient UAE Tusker Tracks Bust the Record (Source: Sudan Vision)

29 February 2012
700万年前象群足迹重见天日(图) (Source: news.xinmin.cn)

23 February 2012
De la sociabilité des éléphants (Source: Sciences et Avenir)

Sieben Millionen Jahre alte Fußabdrücke (Source: Welt Online)

22 February 2012
Ancient tracks are elephant herd (Source: BBC News)

Les éléphants préhistoriques aussi sociables que leurs congénères actuels (Source: CNRS)

7 Million-Year-Old Elephant Herd Revealed in Prints (Source: Discovery News)

Elephant tracks discovered in Abu Dhabi provide world's oldest evidence (Source: The National)

Oldest elephant tracks uncovered (Source: The Royal Society)

Oldest elephant footprints found (Source: Sky News - Australia)

Fossilized Elephant Tracks Map Animals' Early Behavior (Source: Time)

21 February 2012
Scientists uncover oldest ever elephant tracks... prefectly preserved after seven million years (Source: Daily Mail Online)

Des empreintes d'éléphants de 7 millions d'années (Source: Le Figaro)

Paleontologists uncover world's oldest elephant footprints in UAE (Source: Middle East Online)

Ancient Elephants Followed the (Female) Leader (Source: Science AAAS)

15 February 2012
Capital Diary: Restoration tech (Source: Gulf Today)

14 February 2012
Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture uses modern technology to preserve heritage (Source: Middle East Online)

10 February 2012
New tourism authority to replace two agencies for Abu Dhabi (Source: The National)

New tourism and culture authority for Abu Dhabi (Source: Khaleej Times)

9 February 2012
President issues law setting up the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture (Full Version) (Source: WAM - Emirates Press Agency)

New Publications...

Bibi F, Hill A, Beech M and Yasin W. 2012/In Press. Late Miocene fossils from the Baynunah Formation, United Arab Emirates: Summary of a decade of new work. In: Flynn L.J., Wang, X and Fortelius, M, editors. Neogene Terrestrial Mammalian Biostratigraphy and Chronology in Asia. Columbia University Press.

Beech, M. 2012. Review of XTACH 2011 - International Conference on the Use of X-ray (and related) Techniques in Arts and Cultural Heritage. e-conservation magazine 23, pp. 22-30 [ click here to visit the online version, or click here to download a pdf version (1.8 MB)].

Environmental Atlas of Abu Dhabi Emirate. 2011.
Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi & Motivate Publishing, Dubai.
ISBN 978 1 86063 316 4 (English version)
ISBN 978 1 86063 317 1 (Arabic version).
Pages: 200. Maps: 100+. Format: Hardback.
Dimensions: 430mm(h) x 300mm(w)
Number Of Pictures: 120+
Price: 270 AED (74 USD)
You can order this book via: http://booksarabia.com
Mark Beech is Primary Author/Contributor to the following chapters: Geographic Inheritance (Contributor), pp.22-35, & Human Journey (Primary Author), pp.80-91. Abu Dhabi Cartography (Primary Author): Historic Sea Levels (pp.124-125), Palaeontological, Archaeological and Historical Areas - Site Density (pp.176-177), Archaeological Periods - Earliest Humans (pp.178-179), Historic Buildings - Architecture of the Past (pp.180-181), Late Miocene Fossil Sites - Ancient Fossils (pp.182-183).

Bibi, F., Kraatz, B., Craig, N., Beech, M., Schuster, M., and Hill, A. 2012. Early evidence for complex social structure in Proboscidea from a late Miocene trackway site in the United Arab Emirates. Biology Letters rsbl.2011.1185v1-rsbl20111185.

Stewart, J.R., Aspinall, S., Beech, M., Fenberg, P., Hellyer, P., Larkin, N., Lokier, S.W., Marx, F.G., Meyer, M., Miller, R., Rainbow, P.S., Taylor, J.D., Whittaker, J.E., Al-Mehsin, K. and Strohmenger, C.J. 2011. Biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a mid-Holocene intertidal lagoon on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf: evidence associated with a whale skeleton at Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Quaternary Science Reviews 30 (25-26): 3675-3690 [ click here to download this article in Acrobat .pdf format (3.3 MB) ].

Chen, W., Al-Husaini, M., Beech, M., Al-Enezi, K. and Rajab, S. 2011. Discriminant analysis as a tool to identify catfish (Ariidae) species of the excavated archaeological otoliths. Environmental Biology of Fishes 90 (3): 287-299. [ click here to download this article in Acrobat .pdf format (630 Kb) ].

Beech, M. 2010. Chapter 7: The Animal and Fish Bones. Pages 129-156, in: R. Carter and H. Crawford (eds.), Maritime Interactions in the Arabian Neolithic - The Evidence from H3, As-Sabiyah, an Ubaid-related site in Kuwait. American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series, 8. Hardback. Number of pages: xxiv, 384 pp. ISBN-13: 978 90 04 16359 1. ISBN-10: 90 04 16359 X. Price: 50.00 Euros / 50.00 USD. [click here to order this book - or, click here to download Chapter 7 in Acrobat. pdf format ( 21.5 MB) ].

Beech, M.J. 2010. Mermaids of the Arabian Gulf: Archaeological Evidence for the Exploitation of Dugongs from Prehistory to the Present. Liwa (Journal of the National Center for Documentation and Research) 2 (3): 3-18. [ click here to download this article in Acrobat .pdf format (1.66 MB) ].


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