Holocene Land Use Variations on the Bahrain Islands

Abbassid aeolian agricultural Akkadian Alat anhydrite appear aquifer Arabian coast Arabian Gulf artesian water assemblage Barbar II Barbar period Barbar ware Bibby bowls buff slip Carmathian centuries A.D. ceramic coastal plain Cooking Wares deposits Dilmun Diraz Dynasty Early Dynastic Early Islamic eastern Arabia evidence example excavation flint Gerrha glaze Group B Barbar Gulf of Bahrain Hofuf Holocene indicate Isin-Larsa Islamic period island Kassite Khobar km² lake land Late Islamic Level 24 light brown ware limestone located major Manama maritime trade Meluhha Mesopotamia north coast occupation orange ware parallels Parthian patterns Persian Pleistocene population population density pottery pre-Barbar present Profile Qalat al-Bahrain Qatif range red ware sand sand-tempered buff ware Sasanian Saudi Arabia sea level sediments sequence settlement sherds shown in Figure shows similar suggested surface Temple terraces tion Tomb Group trade network Ur III urban center vessels villages wadi water level zone