One Of The Earliest Trade Settlements Ever Discovered In Oman Was Discovered By US And UAE Archaeologists

Oman’s Ministry of Heritage and Tourism has revealed information about what has been discovered at Dahwa, a complex of five early Bronze Age sites on the west coast of the Arabian Peninsula related to the Umm al-Nar culture. The archeological finds include blueprints for buildings, industrial structures, and silver jewelry that reveal fresh information about ancient trade.

The archaeological team, led by Nasser Al-Jahouri and Khaled Douglas from the nearby Sultan Qaboos University’s Department of Archeology and working with Kimberly Williams from Temple University in the United States, has discovered new artifacts that are all from the Umm al-Nar heyday, roughly 2600 to 2000 B.C.E.

“These sites represent the oldest permanent settlements in the north of the Sultanate of Oman,” Al-Jahouri said in a statement. Another significant Umm al-Nar settlement and cemetery, 300 kilometers west in Abu Dhabi, became a UNESCO site in 2012.

Al-Jahouri originally discovered Dahwa in 2013. He considers it “among the important early Bronze Age sites in the Al-Batinah Plain due to the nature and quantity of archaeological finds.” An exhaustive, seven season survey followed. Archaeologists determined the settlement’s precise timeline, along with its economic and social functions, by mapping buildings and their surrounding conditions.

Most recently, researchers excavated Dahwa’s stone buildings, which included warehouses, industrial copper processing centers, administrative offices, and religious houses. The structures are all “the first of their kind from prehistoric times found in Oman,” according to Al-Jahouri.The researchers also discovered a mass grave. Williams led its excavation, which uncovered lots of soapstone, jewelry, and native and imported pottery as well as human bones.

“Among the most important and distinguished tools from this tomb are the remains of silver jewelry, such as beads that are part of a necklace and a number of rings,” Wilson said in a statement.

One silver ring carries the engraved seal of an Indian bison cow, “a distinctive decorative pattern and motif known in the Indus Valley (harappa) culture,” Wilson added.

The seal has previously been found on soapstone in Salut and Maysir in Oman, but Dahwa’s sample is the first time it has been spotted on a metal ring. Researchers discovered that the silver used in this particular piece most likely originated in contemporary Turkey, integrating Oman into the trade networks linking ancient civilizations in Iran, Bahrain, and Mesopotamia.

“This discovery proves that the peoples of the Bronze Age were more intelligent and technologically advanced than previously thought,” Jonathan Mark Kinnware, an expert from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, noted in an announcement about the discovery. “At an early stage they introduced management solutions that allowed them to grow economically in the following millennia.”Watch the video below:

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