Two Late Umm an-Nar Tombs at Mowaihat-Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Contents

Prelude
Acknowledgments
Abstract
الملخص

Mowaihat, Ajman: The excavations – Walid Yasin Al Tikriti
Introduction
The two Mowaihat tombs at Ajman
The circular tomb
The rectangular tomb (Tomb B)
Conclusion

Mowaihat, Ajman: The human remains – Kathleen McSweeney
Background to the research
Tomb B Mowaihat
Minimum number of individuals (MNI)
Age at death
Assessment of sex
Estimation of stature
Health and disease
Summary of the collated data from the Mowaihat Tomb B remains
The Mowaihat Tomb B remains in the wider context
Jar burial

APPENDIX 1
List of objects from Mowaihat, Ajman: Tombs A and B (1986/1987)
Tomb A, Group P (pottery)
Tomb B (pottery)
Stone vessels – Group S (chlorite?)
Miscellanea – Group M

APPENDIX 2
List of objects from Mowaihat, Ajman, Tomb B (1990) (NB: copied from Haerinck 1991)

APPENDIX 3
Key for Figure 68 – Ajman Rectangular Tomb B

References 

About the Author

Walid Yasin Al Tikriti (PhD, University of Cambridge, Trinity College 1982) is a former archaeologist in the Antiquities Directorate, Baghdad and a former head of the Archaeology Section at the Abu Dhabi Authority of Culture and heritage. A former lecturer at the United Arab University, he led and supervised several excavations at Bronze and Iron Age sites in the United Arab Emirates. He is the author of several papers on the archaeology of the UAE and on water heritage including a book on the falaj irrigation system (English and Arabic). His most recent publication is Qidfa 1: Excavations at a Late Prehistoric site in Fujairah, UAE (Archaeopress 2022).

Kathleen McSweeney (PhD, Ma Hons., FSA Scot) is an Honorary Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. Recently retired as Senior Lecturer in Human Osteoarchaeology, she has conducted several osteological researches in the United Arab Emirates and Bulgaria. She is a Member of the National Archaeological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Science.