Qatar : evidence of the Palaeolithic earliest people revealed / Julie Scott-Jackson

Book in 2 halves, one in English and the other in the same book in Arabic

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: An interview with H.E. Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani -- Investigations: Why look for evidence of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in Qatar? -- The Pre-History of Qatar (Part 1): Traces of Occupation -- The Hiatus in Palaeolithic Research in Qatar: Identifying the problem -- The Answer to the Question: What curtailed Palaeolithic research inQatar for over 30 years? -- The Pre-History of Qatar (Part 2): In search of the Palaeolithic of Qatar, new investigation, new discoveries -- Found: The Palaeolithic of Qatar -- All Things Considered: Summary results of the 2009-2020 investigations in Qatar by the PADMAC Unit -- Further Reading Section 1: Palaeolithic Material Culture -- Further Reading Section 2: Geospatial analyses

Open Access Electronic Book

Qatar: Evidence of the Palaeolithic Earliest People Revealed, with full text in both English and Arabic, tells the story of the long and difficult search to discover the identity of the first people to inhabit the sovereign State of Qatar, which is situated on a peninsula, that extends into the Arabian Gulf. The book synthesises the results of extensive fieldwork by the PADMAC Unit with the many diverse historical records and reports of investigations, beginning with Holgar Kapel?s, in the early 1950s.00The archaeology of the State of Qatar is an important part of the cultural heritage of the world. The loss of archaeological sites to urban and industrial development since the 1950s has been inevitable but the loss of over 30 years of Palaeolithic research in Qatar, an area of prehistoric significance, as a result of academic dissension, is certainly regrettable. The work of the PADMAC Unit in Qatar now marks the end of this Palaeolithic research hiatus