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Rewriting the end of the Early Bronze Age in the United Arab Emirates through the anthropological and artefactual evaluation of two collective Umm an-Nar graves at Hili (eastern region of Abu Dhabi) |
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| Authors: | Kathleen McSweeney Sophie Méry Roberto Macchiarelli |
| Institution: | Dept. of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Old High School, Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LT, UK, e-mail:; UMR7041, CNRS, Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie R. Ginouvès, 21 allée de l'Université, F-92023, Nanterre cedex, France, e-mail:; Dép. Préhistoire, UMR5198, MNHN, Paris &Dép. Géosciences, Universitéde Poitiers;40 av. Recteur Pineau, 86000 Poitiers, France, e-mail: |
| Abstract: | The Hili archaeological complex in Al Ain (U.A.E.) is important for its wealth of third-millennium BC Umm an-Nar burial and settlement sites. Two of the most significant burial sites are Tomb N at Hili and Tomb A Hili North. The latter is a classic circular Umm an-Nar monumental grave, while Hili N is a pit-grave, one of only two Umm an-Nar period pit-graves discovered so far in the U.A.E. Both of these tombs contained the remains of hundreds of individuals, in the case of Tomb A Hili North, more than 300, while around 600 people had been deposited in Hili N. Both population groups have been the subject of anthropological and artefactual analyses and a comparison of the findings help to shed light on the chronology of the end of the Umm an-Nar period. |
| Keywords: | anthropology artefacts Arabia Bronze Age collective grave typology |