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Prehistory in Northeastern Arabia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joan Oates
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In 1968 Geoffrey Bibby, then carrying out an archaeological survey in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, was shown a collection of flint implements and ‘about two hundred potsherds, of a thin, greenish-yellow ware decorated with geometric patterns in dark-brown paint’ (1970, 376). They had been found by an American school teacher, Grace Burkholder, who, together with other amateur archaeologists from the headquarters of the Arabian American Oil Company at Dhahran, had scoured the nearby desert in pursuit of archaeological remains. Bibby with considerable astonishment recognized the pottery as identical with the Mesopotamian al ‘Ubaid.

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Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 197 , March 1976 , pp. 20 - 31
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1976

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