The Development of Fishing in the UAE: a Zooarchaeological PerspectivePaper presented at the First International Conference on Emirates Archaeology - 15-18 April 2000, Abu Dhabi, UAE.A conference organised by the Zayed Center for Heritage and History, in Abu Dhabi, with the co-sponsorship of the Ministry of Information and Culture of the United Arab Emirates.
Mark J. BeechDepartment of Archaeology, University of York, The King's Manor, York YO1 7EP, U.K. ( E-mail: mjb117@york.ac.uk )ABSTRACT The study of fish bones from
archaeological excavations can provide important information concerning
the diet of the early inhabitants of the United Arab Emirates. It also
allows us to examine which types of marine environments were exploited
by coastal populations through time. This contribution will present
some of the key points to emerge from from my recently completed
doctoral thesis concerned with the development of fishing within the
Arabian Gulf. Using examples from a number of archaeological fish bone
assemblages which I have studied from the United Arab Emirates, I will
outline the major trends visible between the Late Stone age and Late
Pre-Islamic Periods (ca. 5500 BC - 650 AD).
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