Neolithic in the United Arab Emirates

The Neolithic period in the United Arab Emirates is generally dated from 6,500 to 4,000 BCE and represents the transition from Paleolithic hunter-gatherer communities to settled and structured societies that subsisted on farming, fishing and animal husbandry.

The Neolithic people of the area were likely nomadic or semi-nomadic and were linked to regional trade networks, including with Ubaid era Mesopotamia. Late Neolithic trade links with other communities in the Arabian Peninsula resulted in the widespread dispersal of tool-making practises, as well as centralised production of tools, implements and jewellery. In the late Neolithic, the manufacture of soft-stone vessels and ceramics was added to the repertoire of the inhabitants of Southeastern Arabia.

The end of the Neolithic is marked by the 'Dark Millennium', the period from 4,000- 3,200 BCE when the coast and interior to the west of the Hajar Mountains was almost completely abandoned due to a period of intense aridity. The re-emergence of human population in the area is characterised by the early bronze age Hafit Period.

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