Arabian Gulf in Antiquity: Volume I: From Prehistory to the Fall of the Achaemenid Empire - Potts, D. T. (Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology, Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology, University of Sydney)

The Arabian Gulf has, since the early 1970s, been one of the most promising new areas of research in ancient Near-Eastern archaeology. This account attempts to synthesize the archaeology and history of this region from the beginning of human settlement.