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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert Carter
Robert Carter*
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G.A. Wainwright Research Fellow (University of Oxford, University of Durham), 38B Grand Parade, Green Lanes, London N4 1AQ, England
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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.

Keywords

Persian GulfUbaid wareboat-buildingmaritime archaeology
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 80 , Issue 307 , 1 March 2006 , pp. 52 - 63
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2006

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