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Book on archaeological findings in Sharjah
Three leading archaeologists yesterday launched their book and presented research on excavation dating back 7,000 years while exploring human remains and monuments found in Sharjah.
- By Mariam M. Al Serkal, Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:00 January 8, 2007
Sharjah: Three leading archaeologists yesterday launched their book and presented research on excavation dating back 7,000 years while exploring human remains and monuments found in Sharjah.
The 380-page book titled, Funeral Monuments and Human Remains from Jebel Al Buhais, is the first volume in a three-part series. "We have collaborated for 10 years to bring out these results and it is a great incentive for us to continue our studies in the area," said Hans-Peter Uerpmann, of the University of Tuebingen, Germany.
The human remains found in the Jebel Al Buhais graveyard, which were buried in the fifth millennium BC, provide a great deal of information that helped the archaeologists to understand early human mastery over a difficult environment.
"This book is very important because it gives great insight of how people and the environment developed," he said. It will be available on the market next month.
Uerpmann collaborated with his wife Margarethe, an Arabian Neolithic specialist, and Sabah Jasim, Director of Archaeological Excavations at the Directorate of Antiquities of Sharjah, whose contribution documents the funeral sites in Al Buhais through different periods. The excavations were originally initiated in 1995 when a local team of experts stumbled upon a graveyard that contained human remains.
The graveyard also provided a significant amount of evidence linking the area to the known developments of human populations in the wider Gulf region during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
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