Beatrice De Cardi is an archaeologist at the University College London Institute of Archaeology and an expert on the pre-Islamic cultures of the Arabian Gulf and Baluchistan, which she has been studying since the 1940s.

• Introduction and Acknowledgements; Commuications within the Region Surveyed; The Dating of the Sites - Early Chalcolithic and Bronze Age; The Dating of the Later Sites; Gazetteer; The Pottery, the neolithic - bronze age wares: some zonal patterns, catalogue of the pottery with reference to comparative material; Other Finds; Bibliography; Plates; Index