Heading for the Straits of Hormuz, an'Ubaid site in the Emirate of Ajman (U.A.E.)

This brief note reports on the discovery of a prehistoric site near the coast of Ajman (United Arab Emirates), with lithics and ceramics which should probably be dated to the fifth millennium BC. Although small, the site nonetheless takes its place alongside a growing number of prehistoric points of habitation on the southern Gulf coast which attest to contact with'Ubaid Mesopotamia.