CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; The Chronology of the Early Dilmun Period; The Ordinary Early Dilmun Mounds; The Royal Mounds of Early Dilmun; The Original Appearance of the Mounds; The Saar Mound Cemetery; The Aali Mound Cemetery; The Dar Kulayb Mound Cemetery ; The Umm Jidr Mound Cemetery; Dating The Danish Excavated Burials; Early Dilmun Society: A Sketch; Social Complexity in Early Dilmun Graves.