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Biology of Sea Turtles, Volume II
TABLE 1.1
Summary of Marine Turtle Remains in the Arabian Gulf, Mediterranean, and Western Indian Ocean
Site
Period and Estimated Date
Species*
Remarks
Source
Arabian Gulf
Ubaid
Dalma Is. UAE
5000 B
. C
. E
.
chl
Habitational site
Beech, 2000
As-Sabiya, Kuwait
~5000 B
. C
. E
.
chl
Beech, 2002
Mediterranean
Bronze Age
Afridar, Israel
3600–3300 B
. C
. E
.
Cm
?
Whitcher-Kansa, in press
Arabian Gulf
Bronze Age
Abu Khamas, Saudi Arabia
3500 B
. C
. E
.
Reported as “Ubaid”
Masry, 1974
Ra’s al-Hamra, Oman
3500 B
. C
. E
.
Cm
Most common animal remains in
graves
Durante and Tosi, 1980; Potts, 1990
Ra’s al-Junayz, Oman
4000–2000 B
. C
. E
.
Cm
?
>3400 turtle bones
Bökönyi, 1992
Ra’s al-Hadd, Oman
2000 B
. C
. E
.
Cm
?
>3000 fragments; signs of butchery
and burning
Mosseri-Marlio, 1998
Umm an-Nar, Abu Dhabi
2700 B
. C
. E
.
Cm
?
> 4000 turtle bones
Hoch, 1979; 1995
Arabian Gulf
Dilmun
Tell Abraq, Abu Dhabi
2200–300 B
. C
. E
.
Cm
>3100 fragments
Stephan, 1995; Potts, 2000; Uerpmann,
2001
Ghanda Island, UAE
~2300 B
. C
. E
.
chl
Yasin Al-Tikkriti, 1985
Qala’at al Bahrain, Bahrain
2150–1900 B
. C
. E
.
Cm
, Ei
> 400 fragments
Uerpmann and Uerpmann, 1994; 1997
Saar, Bahrain
2100 B
. C
. E
.
Marine turtle bones rare
Killick et al., 1991; Uerpmann and
Uerpmann, 1999
West Indian Ocean
Dembeni, Mayotte, Comoro
Islands
800–900 C
. E
.
Cm
Signs of burning
Redding and Goodman, 1984
* Notes:
chl = cheloniid; Cm
= Chelonia mydas; Ei
= Eretmochelys imbricata.
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