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Boat remains and maritime trade in the Persian Gulf during the sixth and fifth millennia BC

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ANTIQUITY
Volume 80, Issue 307, Pages 52-63

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CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0009325X

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Persian Gulf; Ubaid ware; boat-building; maritime archaeology

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Archaeological excavations in Kuwait have revealed the earliest remains anywhere of sea-going boats. The author explains these remains and the distribution of Ubaid pottery as evidence for a system of maritime exchange in the Arabian Neolithic driven by status and ceremony.

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