Protohistoire de l'oasis d'al-Aïn, travaux de la mission archéologique française à Abou Dhabi (Emirats arabes unis)
Subtitle: les sépultures de l'âge du Bronze
By: S. Cleuziou, S. Méry, B. Vogt (eds)
Contributors: Maison de l'archéologie et de l'ethnologie René-Ginouvès; Abū Ẓaby lil-Thaqāfah wa-al-Turāth
Series: BAR international series -- 2227; BAR international series -- 2227.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: fre
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781407307893
Subjects: Tombs; Excavations (Archaeology); Bronze age; Antiquities
Description: "This work is the definitive publication of the excavation that took place between 1977 and 1984 of several tombs by the French archaeological mission in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates): six tombs of Hafit type (first phase of the local early Bronze, about 3000-2700 BC) and two tombs of Umm an-Nar type (second phase of the early Bronze Age) -- tomb M of Hili and tomb A of Hili north. Tomb M dates to the middle of the architectural sequence of the necropolis of Hili and is one of the rare tombs known for the middle of the 3rd millennium. Tomb A of Hili north, which is later, remains today a site of the first importance for the richness and variety of the discoveries made. It is an important landmark in the establishment of a regional chronology and its study has greatly enriched our perception of trade, on different scales. This work is the first of a series that will be published on the work carried out in the region of Al-Aïn by the French mission, which in 1999 became the French archaeological mission to the United Arab Emirates. The next two volumes will present the anthropological study of tomb N of Hili and the study of ancient technologies at Hili"--Publisher's web site.
Notes: "Maison de l'archéologie René Ginouvès-Nanterre/Abou Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH)."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232).

Abstract in French and English.