Regional archaeological survey in desert areas of Dubai, UAE, has identified numerous
archaeological sites in this rapidly changing landscape. Subsurface geophysical surveys …

Until recently, our knowledge of the Paleolithic period in Arabia has been limited.
Occasional Paleolithic tools were collected and reported early in the last century, such as …

Over the past 20 years a virtual moribundity has descended on Paleolithic research in the
region of the Persian Gulf. This predicament arose as a direct consequence of the …

The Central Oman Palaeolithic Survey (COPS), initiated by the Institute for Prehistory and
Archaeological Science (IPAS), University of Basel (Switzerland), and carried out in the al …

Initial investigations during 2006 and 2007 in Sharjah emirate (United Arab Emirates),
resulted in the new discovery of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Arabia stone-tool …

Recently collected lithic artefacts from Jebel Barakah, the well-known Late Miocene fossil
locality situated in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi Emirate, provide clear evidence for a …

A systematic survey of the western fringes of the al-Ḥajar mountains to the south of Sharjah
Emirate, by the PADMAC Unit during 2011, led to the discovery of ten Palaeolithic surface …