The Environmental Atlas of Abu Dhabi Emirate

Beech, M. and E. Glover. (2005). The environment and economy of an Ubaid-related settlement on Dalma island, United Arab Emirates. Paléorient 31/1: 97–107. Beech, M. and E. Shepherd. (2001). Archaeobotanical evidence for early date consumption on Dalma Island, United Arab Emirates. Antiquity 75: 83–9. Carter, R. and W.Y. Al-Tikriti. (2004). Archaeology. Pages 48-64, in: S. Aspinall and P. Hellyer (eds.), Jebel Hafit: A Natural History . Emirates Natural History Group (ENHG). Sponsored by the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO). Cleuziou, S. and M. Tosi. (2007). In the Shadow of the Ancestors – The Prehistoric Foundations of the Early Arabian Civilization in Oman. Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Sultanate of Oman. Frifelt, K. (1991). The Island of Umm-An-Nar. 1, Third Millennium Graves (with contributions by Manfred Kunter, Ella Hoch and David S. Reese). Jutland Archaeological Society Publications. Aarhus University Press. ISBN: 8772885610. Frifelt, K. (1995). The Island of Umm An-Nar. 2, The Third Millennium Settlement (with contributions by Andreas Hauptmann, Ella Hoch and George Willcox). Jutland Archaeological Society Publications, 26:2. Aarhus University Press, Moesgaard, Aarhus. ISBN: 8772885777. Kallweit H., M. Beech and W.Y. Al-Tikriti. (2005). Kharimat Khor al-Manahil and Khor al-Manahil - New Neolithic sites in the south-eastern desert of the UAE. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 35: 97–113. Pittman, H., and D.T. Potts. (2009). The earliest cylinder seal in the Arabian Peninsula. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 20: 109–121. Potts, D.T. (2001). Before the Emirates: an Archaeological and Historical account of Developments in the Region c. 5000 BC to 676 AD. Pages 28–69, in: I. Al Abed and P. Hellyer, United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective . Trident Press, London. Uerpmann, M. (2001). Remarks on the animal economy of Tell Abraq (Emirates of Sharjah and Umm al-Qaywayn, U.A.E.). Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 31: 227–233. Uerpmann, M. and H-P. Uerpmann (2000). Faunal remains of al-Buhais 18, an aceramic neolithic site in the Emirate of Sharjah (SE-Arabia) – Excavations 1995–1998. Pages 40–49, in: M. Mashkour, A.M. Choyke, H. Buitenhuis and F. Poplin (eds.), Archaeozoology of the Near East IVB – Proceedings of the fourth international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas. ARC – Publicatie 32. Groningen, Netherlands. Uerpmann, M., H-P. Uerpmann and S.A. Jasim. (2000). Stone Age nomadism in SE-Arabia – palaeo-economic considerations on the neolithic site of Al-Buhais 18 in the Emirate of Sharjah, U.A.E. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 30: 229–234. Uerpmann, M., H-P. Uerpmann and S.A. Jasim (Eds.). (2006). Funeral Monuments and Human Remains from Jebel al-Buhais. The Archaeology of Jebel Al-Buhais Vol. 1, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Department of Culture and Information, Government of Sharjah, in collaborationwith the Institut für Ur- und Frügeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Universitat Tübingen, Germany, and Kerns Verlag, Tübingen. Uerpmann, M., H-P. Uerpmann and S.A. Jasim (Eds.). (2008). The Natural Environment of Jebel al-Buhais: Past and Present. The Archaeology of Jebel Al-Buhais Vol. 2, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Department of Culture and Information, Government of Sharjah, in collaboration with the Institut für Ur- und Frügeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Universitat Tübingen, Germany, and Kerns Verlag, Tübingen. Iron Age to Pre-Islam Al-Tikriti, W.Y. (2002). Al-aflaj fi dawlat al-imarat al-’arabiyat al-mutahida. Dirasat athariya fi anzamat al-rayy al-qadima (Aflaj in the United Arab Emirates. Archaeological Studies on Ancient Irrigation Systems) – in Arabic. Ministry of Information and Culture, Abu Dhabi. Al-Tikriti, W.Y. (2002). The south-east Arabian origin of the falaj system. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 32: 117–138. Beech, M., M. Mashkour, M. Huels and A. Zazzo. (2009). Prehistoric Camels in South-Eastern Arabia: the Discovery of a New Site in Abu Dhabi’s Western Region, United Arab Emirates. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 39. Boucharlat, R. (2003). Iron Age Water-draining Galleries and the Iranian ‘Qanat’. Pages 162–172, in: D.T. Potts, H. Naboodah and P. Hellyer (eds.), Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Archaeology of the UAE. Trident Press Ltd., London.

Cordoba, J.M. and M. Cerro. (2005). Archéologie de l’eau dans al Madam (Sharjah, Émirats Arabes Unis). Puits, aflaj et sécheresse pendant l’âge du Fer. The Iron Age in the Iranian World – International Congress, 17-20 November 2003, Ghent University / Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels. IA 40: 515-532. Carter, R. (2008). Christianity in the Gulf during the first centuries of Islam. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 19: 71–108. Elders, J. (2003). The Nestorians in the Gulf: Just Passing Through? Pages 229–236, in: D.T. Potts, H. Naboodah and P. Hellyer (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, 15–18 April 2001) . Trident Press, London. Haerinck, E. (2001). The University of Ghent South-East Arabian Archaeological Project: Excavations at Ed-Dur (Umm Al-Qaiwain, United Arab Emirates). Volume 2 – The Tombs. Peeters Publishers. Haerinck, E. (2003). Internationalisation and Business in Southeast Arabia during the Late 1st century B.C./1st century A.D.: Archaeological Evidence from Ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, U.A.E.). Pages 196-206, in: D.T. Potts, H. Naboodah and P. Hellyer (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, 15–18 April 2001). Trident Press, London. Kennet, D. (2007). The decline of eastern Arabia in the Sasanian period. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 18(1): 86–122. King, G.R.D. (1997). A Nestorian monastic settlement on the island of Sir Bani Yas, Abu Dhabi: a preliminary report. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60(2): 221–235. Frifelt, K. (1991). The Island of Umm-An-Nar. 1, Third Millennium Graves (with contributions by Manfred Kunter, Ella Hoch and David S. Reese). Jutland Archaeological Society Publications. Aarhus University Press. Frifelt, K. (1995). The Island of Umm An-Nar. 2, The Third Millennium Settlement (with contributions by Andreas Hauptmann, Ella Hoch and George Willcox). Jutland Archaeological Society Publications, 26:2. Aarhus University Press, Moesgaard, Aarhus. Gruber C., Ayoub S., Bruckner H., von den Driesch A., Manhart H., Qandil H., Werner P. & Zander A. (2005). The site of Al Sufouh 2 within the Internet City of Dubai, UAE: Preliminary report on four campaigns of excavation (03/2001– 11/2002). Pages 48–70 in P. Hellyer and M. Ziolkowski (eds.), Emirates Heritage 1 – Proceedings of the 1st Annual Symposium on Recent Palaeontological & Archaeological Discoveries in the Emirates, Al Ain, 2003. Al Ain: Zayed Center for Heritage and History. Hoch, E. (1979). Reflections on prehistoric life at Umm an-Nar (Trucial Oman) based on faunal remains from the third millennium BC. Pages 589-638, in: M. Taddei (ed.), South Asian Archaeology . Papers from the Fourth International Conference of the association of South Asian archaeologists in Western Europe, held in the Istututo Universitario Orientale, Naples. Seminario di Studi Asiatici Series Minor 6. Köhler-Rollefson I. (1993). Camels and Camel Pastoralism in Arabia. The Biblical Archaeologist 56(4): 180–188. Mashkour, M. (1997). The funeral rites at Mleiha (Sharjah – U.A.E.): The Camelid Graves. International Council of Archaezoology, Konstanz, 26 Oct. – 1 Nov 1994. Anthropozoologica 25–26: 725–736. Mouton, M. (1998). Mleiha I : Environnement, stratégies de subsistance et artisanats, Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient n°28, Lyon. Parker A.G., Goudie A.S., Stokes S., White K., Hodson M.J., Manning M. & Kennet D. (2006). A record of Holocene climate change from lake geochemical analyses in southeastern Arabia. Quaternary Research 66: 465–476. Potts, D.T. (2005). Bactrian Camels and Bactrian-Dromedary Hybrids. The Silk Road 3(1): 49-58. Online source: http: // www. silk-road.com/newsletter/ vol3num1/7_bactrian.php Uerpmann, H.P. (1999). Camel and horse skeletons from protohistoric graves at Mleiha in the Emirate of Sharjah (U.A.E.). Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 10: 102–118. Uerpmann, H.P. and M. Uerpmann. (1999). The camel burial of al-Buhais 12 (Sharjah, U.A.E.). Pages 455-462, in: C. Becker, H. Manhart, J. Peters and J. Schibler (eds.), Historia Animalium Ex Ossibus - Beiträge zur Paläoanatomie, Archäologie, Ägyptologie, Ethnologie und Geschichte der Tiermedizin; Festschrift für Angela von den Driesch zum 65 . Rahden/Westf., Leidorf. 8.

Uerpmann, H.P. and M. Uerpmann. (2002). The Appearance of the Domestic Camel in South-East Arabia. The Journal of Oman Studies 12: 235–260. Vogt B. (1994). Death, resurrection and the camel. Pages 279–290 in N.Nebes (ed.), Arabia Felix, Beitrage zur Sprache und Kultur des vorislamischen Arabien. Festschrift Walter W. Müller zum 60. Geburstag . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. von den Driesch, A., & Manhart, H. (2006). New evidence for wild dromedaries at the Arabian Gulf coast during the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC. Paper presented at ASWA VIII – Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas. 28 June – 1 July, 2006 . Lyon, France: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée. Islam to the Pre-Oil Era Heard-Bey, F. (1981). From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates. U.K: Longman Group. Hellyer, P. (Ed.). (1998). Waves of time: the maritime history of the United Arab Emirates . London: Trident Press. King, G.R.D. (2001). The coming of Islam and the Islamic Period in the UAE. In Al Abed, I. & Hellyer, P., United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective (pp.70–97). London: Trident Press. King, G.R.D. (with architectural drawings by Connolly, D.). (2004a). Bayt al- Muraykhi: a later Islamic pearl merchant’s house at Dalma, Abu Dhabi Emirate. Tribulus ( Journal of the Emirates Natural History Group), 14.1 : 3–8. King, G.R.D. (with ground-plans and elevational drawings by Connolly, D.). (2004). The traditional mosques of Dalma, Abu Dhabi Emirate. Tribulus ( Journal of the Emirates Natural History Group), 14.2 : 23–31. Lienhardt, P. (2001). Shaikhdoms of eastern Arabia. London: Palgrave Macmillan. PATHWAYS Abu Dhabi climate change policy – 2nd draft (unpublished) . (2009). Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD). Abu Dhabi 5-Year economic development strategy . (2009). Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development. Abu Dhabi policy agenda 2030 (unpublished draft) . Executive Affairs Authority. Abu Dhabi surface transport master plan. (2009). Abu Dhabi Department of Transport. Annual work plan 2009 and 5-year sector timeline 2009–2013. (2009). Regulation and Supervision Bureau. Climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation in the United Arab Emirates. (2008). Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD). Estidama pearl rating system (unpublished draft) . Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council. Plan Abu Dhabi 2030 – urban structure framework plan. (2007). Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council. A BU D HABI C ARTOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHIC INHERITANCE Abdelfattah, M.A. (2009). Land degradation indicators and management options in the desert environment of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Soil Survey Horizons , 50, 3–10. Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council. (2007). Plan Abu Dhabi 2030: Urban Structure Framework Plan. Urban Planning Council, Abu Dhabi. Alavi, A.M.Z. (1965). Arab geography in the ninth and tenth centuries. Aligarh: Aligarh University Press. Alsharhan, A.S., Glennie, K.W., Whittle, G.L., & Kendall, C. G. St.C, (Eds.). (1998). Quaternary Deserts and Climate Change. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema. Baghdady, A.R. (1998). Petrography, mineralogy and environmental implications of the sand dunes fields of the greater Al Ain area, United Arab Emirates. Unpublished Ph.D., Ain Shams University, Egypt. Coffin, M.F., Gahagan, L.M., & Lawver, L.A. (1998). Present-day plate boundary digital data compilation. University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Technical Report No. 174, 5 p. Edgell , H. S. (2006 ) . Arabian Deser t s : Nature, Or igin and Evolut ion. The Netherlands: Springer.

Elders, J. 2001. The lost churches of the Arabian Gulf: recent discoveries on the islands of Sir Bani Yas and Marawah, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 31, 47–58. El-Sayed, M.I. (1999). Sedimentological characteristics andmorphology of the aeolian sand dunes in the eastern part of the UAE, a case study from Ar Rub’ Al Khali. Sedimentary Geology, 123 (3–4), 219–238. Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD). (2008). Marine & coastal environment sector paper. Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. EAD. (2008). Physical geography sector paper. Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. EAD. (2008). Terrestrial Environment of Abu Dhabi Emirate. Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. EAD. (2009). Soil Survey of Abu Dhabi Emirate: Extensive Survey, Volume 1. Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency. (2004). Soil Survey for the Coastline of Abu Dhabi Emirate. Soil Resources Programme, Terrestrial Environment Research Centre. Falagas, M.E., Zarkadoulia, E.A., & Samonis, G. (2006). Arab science in the golden age (750-1258 C.E.) and today. FASEB Journal , 20, 1581–1586. Feulner, G.R. (1996). Geology of the United Arab Emirates. In Vine, P.J. (Ed.), Natural Emirates: Wildlife and Environment of the United Arab Emirates (pp. 22–51). London: Trident Press. General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). (2009). The GEBCO_08 Grid: A global 30 arc-second grid. Retrieved November 4, 2009, from website http: // www. gebco.net Harley, J.B., & Woodward, D. (Eds). (1992). The History of Cartography Volume 2, Book 1: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Hellyer, P. (1993). New discoveries on Dalma and Sir Bani Yas. Tribulus (Journal of the Emirates Natural History Group), 3(2), 16. Hellyer, P. (2002). The Archaeology of the Sabkhat of Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey. In Barth & Boer (Eds.) Sabkha Ecosystems 325–333. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Hellyer, P., & Aspinall, S. (Eds.). (2005). The Emirates: A Natural History. Trident Press: Sydney. Hunting Geology and Geophysics, Ltd. (1975). Mineral exploration survey for the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, United Arab Emirates. Jarvis, A., Reuter, H.I., Nelson, A., & Guevara, E. 2008, Hole-filled SRTM for the globe Version 4, available from the CGIAR-CSI SRTM 90m Database: http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org. Kendall, C.G. St. C., Alsharhan, A.S., & Cohen, A. The holocene tidal flat complex of the Arabian Gulf coast of Abu Dhabi. In Sabkha ecosystems, Volume 1: The Arabian Peninsula and adjacent countries (Barth, H.J., and Boer, B.). Norwell, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Kennett, D.J., &Kennett, J.P. (2006). Early state formation in SouthernMesopotamia: Sea levels, shorelines, and climate change. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology , 1, 67–99. King, G.R.D. 1998. Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey: Season I – An Archaeological Survey of Sir Bani Yas, Dalma and Marawah: Season One. London: Trident Press. Lehner, B., Verdin, K., Jarvis, A. (2006). HydroSHEDS Technical Documentation (Online). Washington, D.C.: World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved November 3, 2009, from website http: // hydrosheds.cr.usgs.gov Salah, M.G. (1996). Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of Dalma Island, Offshore Abu Dhabi. Journal of Petroleum Geology, 19(2), 215–226. Satchell, J. E. (1978). Ecology and environment in the United Arab Emirates. Journal of Arid Environments, 1, 201–226. Shboul, A.A.M. (1979). Al-Mas’udi and His World. London: Ithaca Press. United Arab Emirates (UAE) Interact (Online). (n.d). Natural Emirates: Geology. Retrieved September 15, 2009, from website: http://www.uaeinteract.com/ nature/geology/index.asp UAE Interact (Online). (2007). Man-made Lulu Island opens to the public. Retrieved October 3, 2009, from website: http://www.uaeinteract.com/docs/Man-made_ Lulu_Island_opens_to_the_public/24808.htm