Exploring the Early Neolithic in the Arabian Gulf: A newly discovered 8,400–year-old stone-built architecture on Ghagha Island, United Arab Emirates

• Kevin Lidour ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: klidour@dctabudhabi.ae

  Affiliation Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0252-9376

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• Noura Al Hameli,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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• Rémy Crassard,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Historic Environment Department, CNRS, Archéorient UMR 5133, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2403-1894

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• Fabian D’Silva,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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• Ahmed Al Haj

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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