The first find of Hafit era tombs is attributed to the Danish archaeologist PV Glob of the
University of Aarhus in 1959, who was not only the first archaeologist (together with
Geoffrey Bibby) to dig in the United Arab Emirates, but who found the graves that defined the
Umm Al Nar period. Visiting Al Ain in the company of
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Glob and Bibby were shown the vast field of tumuli However, it was not Glob but a member of his team,
Karen Frifelt, who realised that the Hafit graves represented a culturally distinct, earlier, period when she was preparing a
Festschrift for Glob's 60th birthday in 1970. Pottery finds at Hafit period sites demonstrate trading links to Mesopotamia, contiguous to the
Jemdat Nasr period (3100 – 2900 B.C.). It is now thought the transition between the two cultural periods is marked by a decline in links between Southeastern Arabia and Mesopotamia, –
Jebel Hafeet Desert Park near
Al Ain City in the
Eastern Region of
Abu Dhabi, which have been restored to show their original construction == See also ==