History of the Field Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
...Danish prehistorian Peter Vilhelm Glob . Soon after establishing themselves on Bahrain, the Danish Gulf expedition began working in Qatar ( 1957 ), Kuwait ( 1958 ), and the Trucial States ( 1958 ), all of which had been, archaeologically speaking, terra incognita. In 1968 the Danes conducted a season of survey and excavation in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. In 1972 Abdullah H. Masry , a Saudi Arabian educated at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of Chicago, began excavations at a number of important Ubaid-related sites...
