The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) will host on November 16 - 20 the 9th meeting of the Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas (ASWA) Working Group, a sub-group of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ), in Al Ain.
Archaeozoology is the study of the relationships between humans and animals over time. It usually involves the study of animal bones from archaeological sites. This is carried out to provide a deeper understanding of past environments and subsistence economies, ADACH said in a press release yesterday.
ICAZ members number more than 550 individuals from 57 countries around the world all with the common interest of understanding past relationships between humans and animals. Institutional affiliations of ICAZ members range from colleges and universities to government agencies, research institutions, museums, and private firms.
A team of archaeologists from the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage have recently discovered skeletons of forty wild camels in the Western Region in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi which date back over 6000 years, making it a new scientific discovery at the international level.
Camels' remains were unearthed from sand dunes, south of "Baynunah Forest", which was a marshland area for 6-9 thousand years. Camels used to come to these marshlands to drink water.
Early people of Abu Dhabi became probably accustomed to hunting these animals because of the discovery of traces of flint arrowheads manufactured by them. – Emirates News Agency, WAM
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