World IN BRIEF : EMIRATES : Early Village Found on Island in Gulf

British archeologists have unearthed a 7,000-year-old seafarers’ village on an island in the United Arab Emirates that they say is the first major settlement of the Ubaid period in the southern Persian Gulf. The Ubaid civilization, primarily fishing communities, thrived from 5,500 to 7,000 years ago along the river coastlines of southern Mesopotamia in what is now Iraq. The archeologists said the site on Dalma Island, a traditional pearling center 40 miles offshore, is one of the oldest settlements found in the Emirates.