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Seafaring merchants of Ur?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. Oates ,
T. E. Davidson ,
D. Kamilli  and
H. McKerrell
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Less than ten years have passed since the first discovery in Saudi Arabia of prehistoric pottery superficially identical with that known from the earliest farming settlements in Sumer 6-700 km to the north. Some 40 sites have now been identified in the Eastern Province. More recently comparable pottery has been found at sites in nearby Qatar and Bahrain. These discoveries have provoked much speculation about the nature of the contact between Sumer and Arabia at this early period (on calibrated radiocarbon determinations by the late sixth millennium BC), and indeed on the origins of the people who created the important and distinctive prehistoric culture characterized by this pottery and known to archaeologists as ‘Ubaid.

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Antiquity , Volume 51 , Issue 203 , November 1977 , pp. 221 - 234
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1977

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