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Original:  A key barometer of industrial activity is the amount of copper production, as known from smelting refuse (slag ) and metallic artefacts.
Revised:  A key barometer of industrial activity is the amount of industry and manufacturing going on, particularly that of copper -- refused as slag -- and other metallic artifacts. The absolute dates for the different periods are still under study and it is difficult to assign years to the Late Iron Age of central and southern Oman. Even major monuments have been dated variously, spanning millennia. (moved from the last paragraph)
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Original:  A variety of subsistence strategies  exploit the available resources.
Revised:  A variety of subsistence strategies used to exploit the available resources.
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Original:  Since archaeological field work began in the Sultanate in the early 1970s, numerous teams have worked in the Sultanate.
Revised:  Since archaeological field work began in the early 1970s, numerous teams have worked in the Sultanate.
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Original:  Palaeolithic Old Stone Age: Looking to archaeogenetic research, the emerging picture indicates a major dispersal of homo sapiens out of Africa between 50 and 100 thousand years ago.
Revised:  Palaeolithic Old Stone Age: Looking to archaeogenetic research, the emerging picture indicates a major dispersal of homo sapiens out of Africa between 50 and 100 ,000 years ago,
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Original:  Despite the numerous studies proposing early human population expansions from Africa into Arabia during the Late Pleistocene, no archaeological sites have yet been discovered in Arabia that resemble a specific African industry, which would indicate demographic exchange across the Red Sea. Jeffrey I. Rose et al., The Nubian Complex of Dhofar , Oman:
Revised:  Despite the numerous studies proposing early human population expansions from Africa into Arabia during the Late Pleistocene, via the Red Sea. Jeffrey I. Rose et al., The Nubian Complex of Dhofar , Oman:
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Original:  It coincides with the beginning of the Holocene and sees the advent of a food producing economy as opposed to a hunting and gathering based one.
Revised:  It coincides with the beginning of the Holocene and sees the advent of a food producing , or agricultural, society, as opposed to a hunting and gathering based one.
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Original:  It coincides with the beginning of the Holocene and sees the advent of a food producing economy as opposed to a hunting and gathering based one.
Revised:  It coincides with the beginning of the Holocene and sees the advent of a food producing economy as opposed to hunting and gathering based one.
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Original:  Arch. Epigraphy 24.1 , 2013, 73-8 Key sites include  Ra's al-Ḥamrāʾ , Ra's al-Ḥadd, Suwayh and Ra's Dan, Maṣīrah , not to omit newly discovered ones in Ẓafār.
Revised:  Arch. Epigraphy 24.1 , 2013, 73-8 Key sites include Ra's al-Ḥamrāʾ , Ra's al-Ḥadd, Ra's Dan, Maṣīrah , not to omit newly discovered ones in Ẓafār.
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Original:  Serge Cleuziou Maurizio Tosi, In the Shadow of the Ancestors (Muscat 2007) 63-88   Copper Age Copper Age, 3500-2300 BC Hafit period: Known originally from a cemetery site on the Jebel Hafit in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Revised:  Serge Cleuziou . Their middens were dated using radiocarbon techniques and dated circa the middle of the fifth to the third millennium BCE. Several sites exhibited evidence of structures; semi-circular or circular constructions delineated by postholes, hearths, and middens. Some of these middens also held human burials, which of course contained grave goods mostly consisting of simple jewelry. Beads from shells are found all up and down the coast into the UAE. Though certain types of shells which are not naturally occurring in the UAE are found in jewelry there, indicating that there was some sort of trade between communities in Oman, where there shells occurred, and communities in the UAE. Copper Age Copper Age, 3500-2300 BC Hafit period: Known originally from a cemetery site on the Jebel Hafit in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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Original:  Copies and pottery imports from southern Mesopotamia occur .
Revised:  Copies and pottery imports from southern Mesopotamia .
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Original:  Diagnostic pottery of Jemdet Nasr type has survived in some tombs.
Revised:  Also present in the tombs was diagnostic pottery of Jemdet Nasr type has survived in some tombs.
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Original:  Deutsche Archäologische Oman-Expedition 1995, MDOG 128 , 1996, 135–155+Beilage 1, , URL: URL Such ores would leave little slag and the process did not require special conditions  .
Revised:  Deutsche Archäologische Oman-Expedition 1995, MDOG 128 , however such ores would leave little slag and the process did not require special conditions .
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Original:  Deutsche Archäologische Oman-Expedition 1995, MDOG 128 , 1996, 135–155+Beilage 1, , URL: URL Such ores would leave little slag and the process did not require special conditions  .
Revised:  Deutsche Archäologische Oman-Expedition 1995, MDOG 128 , 1996, 135–155+Beilage 1, , URL: URL Such ores would leave little slag and the process did not require special conditions , so there would be little to indicate its presence in the archaeological record .
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Original:  Already at this time there is textual evidence from Sumer for international trade in copper and other commodities, probably from Oman. . Gerd Weisgerber et al., Mehr als Kupfer in Oman, Anschnitt 33, 1981, 174‒7.
Revised:  Already at this time there is textual evidence from Sumer for international trade in copper and other commodities, probably from Oman. 
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Original:  During the Bronze Age  , metal production increased considerably in relation to that of the preceding Hafit Period, with several specimens of plano-convex copper ingots  weighing 1–2 kg  found.
Revised:  During the Bronze Age , metal production increased considerably in relation to that of the preceding Hafit Period, with several plano-convex copper ingots weighing 1–2 kg found.
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Original:  During the Bronze Age  , metal production increased considerably in relation to that of the preceding Hafit Period, with several specimens of plano-convex copper ingots  weighing 1–2 kg  found.
Revised:  During the Bronze Age , metal production increased considerably in relation to that of the preceding Hafit Period, with several specimens of plano-convex copper ingots , weighing 1–2 kg found.
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Original:  During the Bronze Age  , metal production increased considerably in relation to that of the preceding Hafit Period, with several specimens of plano-convex copper ingots  weighing 1–2 kg  found.
Revised:  During the Bronze Age , metal production increased considerably in relation to that of the preceding Hafit Period, with several specimens of plano-convex copper ingots weighing 1–2 kg , being found.
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Original:  Tower  tombs, such as those at Shir () , can only be approximately dated, and may date to the Hafit or Umm an-Nar Periods.
Revised:  Tower tombs, such as those at Shir , can only be approximately dated, and may date to the Hafit or Umm an-Nar Periods.
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Original:  Paul Yule Gerd Weisgerber, The Tower Tombs at Shir, Eastern Ḥajar, Sultanate of Oman, Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Archäologie (BAVA) 18, 1998, 183–241, , During the Umm an-Nar Period, large communal, free-standing tombs contain numerous interments  .
Revised:  Paul Yule al-Nar Periods. During the Umm an-Nar Period, large communal, free-standing tombs contain numerous interments .
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Original:  Paul Yule Gerd Weisgerber, The Tower Tombs at Shir, Eastern Ḥajar, Sultanate of Oman, Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Archäologie (BAVA) 18, 1998, 183–241, , During the Umm an-Nar Period, large communal, free-standing tombs contain numerous interments  .
Revised:  Paul Yule Gerd Weisgerber, The Tower Tombs at Shir, Eastern Ḥajar, Sultanate of Oman, Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Archäologie (BAVA) 18, 1998, 183–241, , During the Umm al-Nar Period, large communal, free-standing tombs contain numerous interments .
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Original:  Paul Yule Gerd Weisgerber, The Tower Tombs at Shir, Eastern Ḥajar, Sultanate of Oman, Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Archäologie (BAVA) 18, 1998, 183–241, , During the Umm an-Nar Period, large communal, free-standing tombs contain numerous interments  .
Revised:  Paul Yule Gerd Weisgerber, The Tower Tombs at Shir, Eastern Ḥajar, Sultanate of Oman, Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Archäologie (BAVA) 18, 1998, 183–241, , During the Umm an-Nar Period, large communal, free-standing tombs contain numerous interments and were more common .
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Original:  Oman Information In Ẓafār weapons came to light in a confirmed grave context datable to the 3rd millennium BC .Paul Yule, A Prehistoric Grave Inventory from Aztaḥ, Ẓafār, in: P. Yule (ed.), Studies in the Archaeology of the Sultanate of Oman, Orient-Archäologie, vol. 2, Rahden/Westfalia, 1999, 91–6,  Northern face of the Jebel Radhania (or Ruwadhah), on top of which the Early Iron Age Lizq fort, L1, was built.
Revised:  Oman Information In Dhofār weapons came to light in a confirmed grave context datable to the 3rd millennium BC .Paul Yule, A Prehistoric Grave Inventory from Aztaḥ, Ẓafār, in: P. Yule (ed.), Studies in the Archaeology of the Sultanate of Oman, Orient-Archäologie, vol. 2, Rahden/Westfalia, 1999, 91–6, Northern face of the Jebel Radhania (or Ruwadhah), on top of which the Early Iron Age Lizq fort, L1, was built.
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Original:  Oman Information In Ẓafār weapons came to light in a confirmed grave context datable to the 3rd millennium BC .Paul Yule, A Prehistoric Grave Inventory from Aztaḥ, Ẓafār, in: P. Yule (ed.), Studies in the Archaeology of the Sultanate of Oman, Orient-Archäologie, vol. 2, Rahden/Westfalia, 1999, 91–6,  Northern face of the Jebel Radhania (or Ruwadhah), on top of which the Early Iron Age Lizq fort, L1, was built.
Revised:  Oman Information In Ẓafār weapons came to light in a confirmed grave context datable to the 3rd millennium BCE .Paul Yule, A Prehistoric Grave Inventory from Aztaḥ, Ẓafār, in: P. Yule (ed.), Studies in the Archaeology of the Sultanate of Oman, Orient-Archäologie, vol. 2, Rahden/Westfalia, 1999, 91–6, Northern face of the Jebel Radhania (or Ruwadhah), on top of which the Early Iron Age Lizq fort, L1, was built.
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Original:  Oman Information In Ẓafār weapons came to light in a confirmed grave context datable to the 3rd millennium BC .Paul Yule, A Prehistoric Grave Inventory from Aztaḥ, Ẓafār, in: P. Yule (ed.), Studies in the Archaeology of the Sultanate of Oman, Orient-Archäologie, vol. 2, Rahden/Westfalia, 1999, 91–6,  Northern face of the Jebel Radhania (or Ruwadhah), on top of which the Early Iron Age Lizq fort, L1, was built.
Revised:  Oman Information In Ẓafār weapons came to light in a confirmed grave context datable to the 3rd millennium BC .Paul Yule, A Prehistoric Grave Inventory from Aztaḥ, Ẓafār, in: P. Yule (ed.), Studies in the Archaeology of the Sultanate of Oman, Orient-Archäologie, vol. 2, Rahden/Westfalia, 1999, 91–6, 
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Original:  Late Bronze Age  Late Bronze Age  1500 - 1300 BC: Following the Wadi Suq Period, this periodfollows.
Revised:  Late Bronze Age Late Bronze Age 1500 to 1300 BC: Following the Wadi Suq Period, this periodfollows.
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Original:  Early Iron Age Orthographic view of an  Early Iron Age hut tomb in Central Oman . 1300 - 300 BC: ]  Known from different cemetery and copper producing sites  especially the fort on the Jebel Radhania, Lizq and the fort at Salut.
Revised:  Early Iron Age Orthographic view of an Early Iron Age hut tomb in Central Oman . 1300 - 300 BC: ] Known from different cemetery and copper producing sites , especially the fort on the Jebel Radhania, Lizq and the fort at Salut.
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Original:   This period is known from some 142 archaeological sites (or 161, depending on how one counts) located in the eastern part of the United Arab Emirates as well as the Central and northern parts of the Sultanate of Oman.
Revised:  This period is known from some 142 archaeological sites located in the eastern part of the United Arab Emirates as well as the Central and northern parts of the Sultanate of Oman.
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Original:   This period is known from some 142 archaeological sites (or 161, depending on how one counts) located in the eastern part of the United Arab Emirates as well as the Central and northern parts of the Sultanate of Oman.
Revised:  This period is known from some 142 archaeological sites (or 161, depending on how one counts) located in the eastern part of the U.A.E. as well as the Central and northern parts of the Sultanate of Oman.
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Original:   This period is known from some 142 archaeological sites (or 161, depending on how one counts) located in the eastern part of the United Arab Emirates as well as the Central and northern parts of the Sultanate of Oman.
Revised:  This period is known from some 142 archaeological sites (or 161, depending on how one counts) located in the eastern part of the United Arab Emirates as well as the central and northern parts of the Sultanate of Oman.
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Original:  URL URL Usually hand-made , hard-fired pottery.
Revised:  URL URL Usually hand-made and hard-fired pottery.
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Original:  Yule, Zeitschrift für die Kultur außereuropäischen Kulturen 5, 2013, 159–220,  The dead are interred in existing subterranean tombs or in new  hut-like free-standing ones.
Revised:  Yule, Zeitschrift für die Kultur außereuropäischen Kulturen 5, 2013, 159–220, The dead are interred in existing subterranean tombs or in new , hut-like free-standing ones.
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Original:  All of thetombs of given group may be oriented in one direction .
Revised:  All of the tombs of given group may be oriented in one direction .
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Original:  No intact tomb of this period has ever been excavated. %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%%  The number of copper-alloy artefacts reaches a peak at this time which will only be surpassed around the 9th century AD . The reason is that the technology to roast the more abundant sulphidic copper ore was developed.
Revised:  No intact tomb of this period has ever been excavated. %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% The number of copper-alloy artifacts reaches a peak at this time which will only be surpassed around the 9th century AD . The reason is that the technology to roast the more abundant sulphidic copper ore was developed.
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Original:  No intact tomb of this period has ever been excavated. %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%%  The number of copper-alloy artefacts reaches a peak at this time which will only be surpassed around the 9th century AD . The reason is that the technology to roast the more abundant sulphidic copper ore was developed.
Revised:  No intact tomb of this period has ever been excavated. %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% The number of copper-alloy artefacts reaches a peak at this time which will only be surpassed around the 9th century AD . The reason is that the technology to roast the more abundant sulfidic copper ore was developed.
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Original:  A hoard of over 500 copper alloy artefacts at ʿIbrī/Selme gives a fair idea of the production at this time.
Revised:  A hoard of over 500 copper alloy artifacts at ʿIbrī/Selme gives a fair idea of the production at this time.
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Original:  Paul Yule Gerd Weisgerber, The Metal Hoard from ʿIbrī()-Selme, Sultanate of Oman.
Revised:  Gerd Weisgerber, The Metal Hoard from ʿIbrī()-Selme, Sultanate of Oman.
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Original:  Prähistorische Bronzefunde xx7, Stuttgart 2001, . In 2012  another copper and iron metal-working workshop came to light first reported incorrectly as at 'al-Saffah', 'as-Safa' (السفة), actually al-Ṣafāʾ (الصفا) after a site some 40 km to the south-west al-Saffah, Oman.
Revised:  Prähistorische Bronzefunde xx7, Stuttgart 2001, . In 2012 , another copper and iron metal-working workshop came to light first reported incorrectly as at 'al-Saffah', 'as-Safa' (السفة), actually al-Ṣafāʾ (الصفا) after a site some 40 km to the south-west al-Saffah, Oman.
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Original:  In reality this site is known as ʿUqdat al-Bakrah (عقدة البكرة) . More than 400 metallic artefacts often found close shape correspondences with those from ʿIbrī/Selme.
Revised:  In reality this site is known as ʿUqdat al-Bakrah . More than 400 metallic artefacts often found close shape correspondences with those from ʿIbrī/Selme.
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Original:  In reality this site is known as ʿUqdat al-Bakrah (عقدة البكرة) . More than 400 metallic artefacts often found close shape correspondences with those from ʿIbrī/Selme.
Revised:  In reality this site is known as ʿUqdat al-Bakrah (عقدة البكرة) . More than 400 metallic artifacts often found close shape correspondences with those from ʿIbrī/Selme.
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Original: R. Borger, Beiträge zum Inschriftenwrk Assurbanipals, die Prismenklassen A, B,C=K, D, E, F, G, H, J und T sowie andere Inschriften, Wiesbaden, 1996, 28, 294 It yielded to date nearly 700 metallic artefacts .
Revised: R. Borger, Beiträge zum Inschriftenwrk Assurbanipals, die Prismenklassen A, B,C=K, D, E, F, G, H, J und T sowie andere Inschriften, Wiesbaden, 1996, 28, 294 It yielded to date nearly 700 metallic artifacts .
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Original:  The chronology for this age resembles but also differs from the better known one of the present-day U.A.E. During this Iron Age paradoxically in Oman iron artefacts are rather rare, although in neighbouring Iran after 1200 BC iron weapons are characteristic.
Revised:  The chronology for this age resembles but also differs from the better known one of the present-day U.A.E. During this Iron Age paradoxically in Oman iron artifacts are rather rare, although in neighbouring Iran after 1200 BC iron weapons are characteristic.
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Original:  The chronology for this age resembles but also differs from the better known one of the present-day U.A.E. During this Iron Age paradoxically in Oman iron artefacts are rather rare, although in neighbouring Iran after 1200 BC iron weapons are characteristic.
Revised:  The chronology for this age resembles but also differs from the better known one of the present-day U.A.E. During this Iron Age paradoxically in Oman iron artefacts are rather rare, although in neighbouring Iran after 1200 BCE iron weapons are characteristic.
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Original:  Archaeologists believed that the site belonged to the miners who were working in coppermining.
Revised:  Archaeologists believed that the site was inhabited by the miners of the nearby copper."Iron Age Tombs Discovered in Oman | ARCHAEOLOGY WORLD". Retrieved 2020-09-17.
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Original:  Samad Late Iron Age Central Oman , Late Iron Age sites At the end of the Early Iron Age , after some 200–300 years without absolutely dated archaeological contexts , in central Oman weak evidence exists for the Samad Late Iron Age from c. 100 BC to 300 AD, dated by means of a thermoluminescense dating and a few outside artefactual comparisons.
Revised:  Samad Late Iron Age sites At the end of the Early Iron Age , after some 200–300 years without absolutely dated archaeological contexts , in central Oman weak evidence exists for the Samad Late Iron Age from c. 100 BC to 300 AD, dated by means of a thermoluminescense dating and a few outside artefactual comparisons.
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Original:  Samad Late Iron Age Central Oman , Late Iron Age sites At the end of the Early Iron Age , after some 200–300 years without absolutely dated archaeological contexts , in central Oman weak evidence exists for the Samad Late Iron Age from c. 100 BC to 300 AD, dated by means of a thermoluminescense dating and a few outside artefactual comparisons.
Revised:  Samad Late Iron Age Central Oman , Late Iron Age At the end of the Early Iron Age , after some 200–300 years without absolutely dated archaeological contexts , in central Oman weak evidence exists for the Samad Late Iron Age from c. 100 BC to 300 AD, dated by means of a thermoluminescense dating and a few outside artefactual comparisons.
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Original:  Samad Late Iron Age Central Oman , Late Iron Age sites At the end of the Early Iron Age , after some 200–300 years without absolutely dated archaeological contexts , in central Oman weak evidence exists for the Samad Late Iron Age from c. 100 BC to 300 AD, dated by means of a thermoluminescense dating and a few outside artefactual comparisons.
Revised:  Samad Late Iron Age Central Oman , Late Iron Age sites At the end of the Early Iron Age -- after some 200–300 years without absolutely dated archaeological contexts , in central Oman weak evidence exists for the Samad Late Iron Age from c. 100 BC to 300 AD, dated by means of a thermoluminescense dating and a few outside artefactual comparisons.
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Original:  Samad Late Iron Age Central Oman , Late Iron Age sites At the end of the Early Iron Age , after some 200–300 years without absolutely dated archaeological contexts , in central Oman weak evidence exists for the Samad Late Iron Age from c. 100 BC to 300 AD, dated by means of a thermoluminescense dating and a few outside artefactual comparisons.
Revised:  Samad Late Iron Age Central Oman , Late Iron Age sites At the end of the Early Iron Age , after some 200–300 years without absolutely dated archaeological contexts -- weak evidence appears for the Samad Late Iron Age from c. 100 BC to 300 AD, dated by means of a thermoluminescense dating and a few outside artefactual comparisons.
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Original:  Samad Late Iron Age Central Oman , Late Iron Age sites At the end of the Early Iron Age , after some 200–300 years without absolutely dated archaeological contexts , in central Oman weak evidence exists for the Samad Late Iron Age from c. 100 BC to 300 AD, dated by means of a thermoluminescense dating and a few outside artefactual comparisons.
Revised:  Samad Late Iron Age Central Oman , Late Iron Age sites At the end of the Early Iron Age , after some 200–300 years without absolutely dated archaeological contexts , in central Oman weak evidence exists for the Samad Late Iron Age from c. 100 BCE to 300 AD, dated by means of a thermoluminescense dating and a few outside artefactual comparisons.
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Original:  Samad Late Iron Age Central Oman , Late Iron Age sites At the end of the Early Iron Age , after some 200–300 years without absolutely dated archaeological contexts , in central Oman weak evidence exists for the Samad Late Iron Age from c. 100 BC to 300 AD, dated by means of a thermoluminescense dating and a few outside artefactual comparisons.
Revised:  Samad Late Iron Age Central Oman , Late Iron Age sites At the end of the Early Iron Age , after some 200–300 years without absolutely dated archaeological contexts , in central Oman weak evidence exists for the Samad Late Iron Age from c. 100 BC to 300 CE, as dated by thermoluminescence and a few outside artefactual comparisons.
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Original:  Evidence for a transition from the EIA  is rare in Central Oman and the chronological situation is clearest at the multi-period site complex at al-Maysar ( al-Moyassar ): falaj water sites from the EIA, LIA  and medieval periods survive to this day.
Revised:  Evidence for a transition from the EIA is rare in Central Oman and the chronological situation is clearest at the multi-period site complex at al-Moyassar ): falaj water sites from the EIA, LIA and medieval periods survive to this day.
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