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‫ﻫﻲ‬s‫ﺅ‬available in the
Eastern Province,

wa he matcrial

used for n٤٦e٢٥٤٢ ،‫ﻳﻘﺮﻓﻬﺎ‬ ‫ﺍﻧﻨﺘﺞ‬.‫ﺅﺓﻹﻕ‬:‫ﻳﻘﻲ‬
crudely vorked ar

rowheads, ome of
which ٧ere iface.
Thee are arrow

heads fron Site 1.

hell beads have been found at Si٤es 1, 2 and 1. The ‫ ﺍ‬ing my corresondenee with im in;‫ﻡ‬
broken one is fromr a bolished ection of a shell, 1968, GeofTrey Bibby, accomanied by a rere
sentative from the Deartment of Antiquities in
Thee blade frag Riyadh, brought his eedition to that salt Bat
ments are made of south of Jubail where I had ifsrt found Ubaid
obsidian whieh ottery-Site 1. The artifacts they collected from
brobably came from the surface, which are now housed in the
Anatolia. The‫ ﺑﻮ‬in Riyadh Museum, give testimony to the style of
dicate trade conne٥ life that once revailed here. irst, there was a
tiosn and have been wealth of colorful Hint imlements--knives,
found at ٤0e istes scraers, arrowheads. The crudely worked arrow
in Saudi Arabia. heads, tanged and barbed, are the most interest
ing of these, and range in length from two to
Pletar ‫ ﺗﻤﺐ‬ued ٤o strengthen ٦eed buldings, The imre; more than three centimeters. Many aear to
oissn of the eesd enain showing hoo ٤he bildin‫ﺝﻭﻥ‬e,‫ﺝ‬ have been chied from thin ieces of tabular
fmroed. Some ‫ﻉ‬iees ha‫ﺩ‬e black ‫ﻕ‬ain٤ on the ‫ﻲﻤﻧ‬٥i‫ ﻭ;ﺇﻭﻭ‬.‫ﻱ‬ lint, a tye of local dark brown tile Aint whose
white outer crust can still be seen on both
faces of these arrowheads., The other inds in
cluded some obsidian bladse, shell beads, a bone
divider bead, bist of laster building material,
knuckle bones, ieces of olished stone celst and
several ieces of broken saddle querns. The
knuckle bones may have been cult figurines like
those (both real and in limestone) found at
Arachiyah, a site in northemr Iraq near Mosul
on the Tigris. The laster building material wsa
light rgey, smooht on one side but consicuously
reed-imressed on the other. A similar material
made of mud was found to the south at Ur,
and at Eridu made of cla.y, Several of our ieces
had thick black iron oide aint on their Hat
surface, which seems to have been a distincitve
feature.

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