300 BCE. Based on several defective radiocarbon assays, in 2009 Yule rejected his low chronology published in the final report of 2001. Little evidence exists for a social or artefactual chronological development within this period, aside from a seriation of the finds from men's graves. Other artefact assemblages exist parallel to it both in Oman and the United Arab Emirates. The end of the Samad Period is even more obscure than its beginning. A series of megadroughts begin around 500 AD in Arabia, some 200 years after its disappearance. The Samad Late Iron Age is little researched, based mainly on one excavation report of over 250 graves at the type-site, notwithstanding later re-interpretations. Criticisms of the Samad Late Iron Age are notoriously unreliable, and show a disinterest in find-quantification. New research may easily change the chronology, area of distribution and other basic aspects. On present knowledge, it is easy to question the integrity of the definition of the Samad artefactual assemblage. In 2016, the definition of this assemblage was re-focussed on the finds from Samd and al-Maysar which reduced to area of distribution to some 14.000 km2, north to Muscat, south to Muḍmar East near Adam, east to Ṭīwī, west to Muḍmar. The Samad Late Iron Age is rarely commented on. Several mentions regarding the archaeology of Central Oman depart from the vantage point of the archaeology of the neighbouring United Arab Emirates. D. Kennet simply links his excavation at Kush (U.A.E.) with sites on Baḥrain and Période préislamique recent sites, to represent all of eastern Arabia from the 3rd cent. BCE to the 8th cent. CE, despite the lack of similarity to Central Oman's LIA characteristics. The increase in the documentation of the Samad assemblage makes this view obsolete. Decades after several European historians declared Oman to be a colony of Persia, perhaps during the 6th century BCE, the appearance of the Samad Late Iron Age assemblage and the so-called pre-Islamic recent period now are proven at over 80 sites, in contrast to a lack of sites with Persian finds in south-eastern Arabia. Today we have more sophisticated historical models for south-eastern Arabia than simply as an ancient Persian colony over the centuries, which in light of archaeological finds is implausible. In this issue, in the later 1st millennium BCE the ancient weak economic base and small population in Central Oman would have made Central Oman unattractive for an