Dosariyah

Dosariyah is an archeological site in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, dating to the late 6th and early 5th millennium BCE [1]. The earliest samples of Ubaid style pottery in Saudi Arabia were found at Dosariyah [1]. The site is located about 12 km south of Jubail and 800 m inland from the present coastline of the Persian Gulf [1]. Grace Burkholder first discovered Dosariyah in 1968 [1]. Scattered all over the area she found great amounts of painted and unpainted pieces of pottery, stone tools made from Silex and Obsidian, seashells, and bones of mammals and fish as well as plaster [1]. In the same year, Geoffrey Bibby dated the pottery to the Ubaid period and suggested further investigation on the site [1].