Al Ashoosh

The archaeological site of Al Ashoosh is a third-millennium BC settlement located 70 km (43 mi) south of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is an important example of inland desert occupation in the period following the Holocene Climatic Optimum period and of human occupation in the Rub' al Khali during the Umm Al Nar period. Archaeologists believe Al Ashoosh was a seasonal settlement occupied by a hunter/pastoral community, probably occupying structures of perishable materials, during the second half of the third millennium BCE (2500—2000 BCE).

It is thought the water table would have been higher, supporting inland settlement in what is now a plain and arid site with several brackish wells. The site was used for the production of stone tools. The boundary between Dubai and Abu Dhabi was defined by the British as a line between Hassyan, today a power station, and Al Ashoosh. It was ratified in 1968.