Fishing forms an important activity in many societies throughout
the world today and played a significant role in the life and
subsistence of many prehistoric societies. Past archaeological
research on fishing has often tended to concentrate on particular
sites or chronological periods. This study aims to adopt an
inter-disciplinary approach to model regional interactions between
coastal communities and their environment. The geographical
framework for this study is the Arabian Gulf/Gulf of Oman, with a
particular focus on the southern Gulf region and present day
coastline of the United Arab Emirates. The environmental and
archaeological background to the region is considered first and
modern fisheries data, as well as ethnographic data relating to
traditional fisheries is presented. An evaluation is carried out of
all the archaeological evidence for the adoption of particular
fisheries technology. The principal data forming the basis for this
study are 23 archaeological fish bone assemblages from sites
located throughout the Arabian Gulf/Gulf of Oman. The chronological
focus is from the 5th millennium BC to the Late Islamic period. In
order to comprehend the regional variation in fisheries, sites were
selected on the basis that they represented a variety of site types
in different environments scattered throughout the region. This
research provides for the first time a detailed insight into the
status of past fisheries resources in the region as well as an
insight into the fishing strategies utilised by the early coastal
inhabitants of the Gulf during the course of the past 7000 years.
The work's special focus is on the use of biometrical techniques to
enable size reconstruction of economically important fish groups.
The overall aim of this research (the first in a planned series of
Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey Monographs) is to consider
the interactions between the goals of the coastal societies, their
fishing strategies and environment; the work overall goes some way
towards addressing some of the key questions of relevance to the
archaeology of south-east Arabia.
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