Bronze Age excavation in Kuwait enters new phase
Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 21 December 2006 Page Views: 1974
Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe team from the Kuwait-Slovak Archaeological Mission (KSAM) is expected to embark on the third phase of their excavation project at the Al-Khidr site from the Bronze Age, situated on Failaka Island in Kuwait. The team of excavators are expected to return on-site in Failaka in February.Of them - Peter Barta, co-leader of KSAM - recently discussed some of the most interesting findings the team had made throughout their two excavation seasons on-site. The burial located in the middle of the settlement in Al-Khidr was one of the most important discoveries the team unveiled earlier this year. Now months after the discovery, Barta explained, the skeleton is due to be dated by radiocarbon method. Abundant evidence on basketry and cordage that was recognised in bitumen imprints is what Barta called interesting [finding]. "Striking is the fact how long-lived are these techniques, since some of them are most commonly used ever since; and one can find, for example the technique of coiling at traditional markets of Kuwait City," he said. More: Kuwait Times.
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