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٨ : Why did yon choose to bild Barasti

: Eerybody built Barasti at that time because it as the cheaest and the most
conenient form of building. Barastis are ery comfortable to the eole, much more
comfortable than the stone houses hich got electricity and airconditioning.

A : Ho any ere in the fist team

B : n the first year e had a third erson joined us (Christian ebison). He later
became a rofessor. He as a student at that time. Peter Mortenson and many others
came in the folloing years. Peter Mortenson came 196 and Frelfit came in 19.
They ere the most imortant eole to come and dig. They et on digging here
and Peter Mortenson as the chief archaeologist in Barbar temle and Frelfit dug for
many years in Oalat A1 Bahrain and then moed to Abu Dhabi and Oman here he
etended our or there. Of course that also haened hen e started finding
things in Bahrain and all the other countries around the gulf anted us to come and
find things there too. We ere ased to come to Oatar, uait, Abu Dhabi and e
ored in these countries as ell. So at sometimes e ere about 1 Danish
Archaeologists oring seeral countries in Gulf in the same time. But our chief
or as alays in Bahrain. We had four grous in atar, Abu Dhabi, uait and
one in Bahrain. Each had its on suerisor and Prof. Globe and ere the
controllers of the hole or. For most of the ime and for many years e sent
most of our ime traeling rfom one to other laces to follo u the or. We
ored little in Saudi Arabia as ell. We made seeral tris to Saudi Arabia then e
ere alloed for one year to dig there.

A : Did you ifnd any difficulties at that time to o in those countries

B : We only ent to those countries, hen e ere ased to go. When e ere
oring in Bahrain somebody came rfom these counrties to as us to do so.

At first eole came rfom uait, the Biritsh council in uait, as interested in
Archaeolog‫ﻫ‬. We started in uait 198 and that as in Failaa lsland. And in 196
e ored in Oatar and 199 in Abu Dhabi. n 1968 e ored in Saudi Arabia e
ent uto Tarout, and made some or in the desert south of Dhahran and ifnally
to further south. So e ere traeling about quite a lot trying to determine the
ihstory of the hole area. Of course e ne that e had Dilmun in Bahrain and e
ne in uait there as a settlement from Dilmun eriod and a settlement later
from the time of the Aleander hte great in Failaa and ufrther south. n Abu Dhabi
e had Ummunar ciiliaiton ihch as rfom the same eriod as in Barhain. oS it
as all ery eicting.