Research on the Palaeolithic and Neolithic of Hadramaut and Mahra

Amirkhanov, Hizri

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1994.tb00069.x

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“…(Zarins, 2001), and stratified occupation level in the section of a wadi at Khabarut, dated between 10 750 and 9840 cal yr B.P. (Amirkhanov, 1994;Zarins, 2001), but these were obtained from fresh-water shells and therefore have to be considered with care. The oldest date known from Arabia is around 10 820 cal yr B.P., from charcoal, in the section of Wadi Wattaya near Muscat in Oman (Uerpmann, 1992).…”

Section: The Littoral Of the Indian Ocean: The Mangrove Of Suwayhmentioning

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Climate change and human occupation in the Southern Arabian lowlands during the last deglaciation and the Holocene

Lézine

Robert

Cleuziou

et al. 2010

Global and Planetary Change

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International audiencePaleohydrological and archaeological evidence from the Southern and South-Eastern Arabian Peninsula reveal strong relations between phases of human settlements and climate change linked to the Indian monsoon system. During the early to mid-Holocene, large fresh-water lakes extended in the lowland deserts of Ramlat as-Sab'atayn (Yemen) and Wahiba Sands (Oman), which were very similar to those occurring in the North, in the Rub' al-Khali (Saudi Arabia), at that time. Many archaeological sites, characterized by scattered stone artefacts, ostrich-eggshells and bones around hearths, are related to this lacustrine phase, which culminated around 10 0008000 cal yr B.P. in the lowland deserts before the lakes progressively dried up. The last record of fresh-water bodies' extensions date back 7300 cal yr B.P. at Shabwa (Yemen) and 7500 cal yr B.P. at al-Haid (Oman). Then, fresh-water was probably available only from seasonal run-off from adjacent highlands, where paleolakes persisted into the late Holocene. Dry climate conditions in the inland desert of Yemen during the late Holocene coincide with a phase of intensive human inhabitation as testified by development of irrigation in the piedmontane areas, numerous necropolises of built collective burials and houses

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Section: The Littoral Of the Indian Ocean: The Mangrove Of Suwayhmentioning

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Climate change and human occupation in the Southern Arabian lowlands during the last deglaciation and the Holocene

Lézine

Robert

Cleuziou

et al. 2010

Global and Planetary Change

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“…As a consequence, the archaeological data available originate mainly from non-stratified and undated open air localities where Acheulean, Middle Paleolithic and Neolithic artifacts are often mixed on sites' surfaces (Caton-Thompson, 1938, 1953Van Beek et al, 1963;Inizan and Ortlieb, 1987;Whalen and Pease, 1991;Amirkhanov, 1994;Petraglia, 2003;Petraglia and Alsharekh, 2003;Crassard, 2008;Scott-Jackson et al, 2008), and not a single Pleistocene human fossil has been recovered in the whole Arabian Peninsula. While these sites perhaps have a low potential per se for discussing expansion models in and across Arabia, they provide valuable information when compared with stratified contexts at a local scale.…”

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Cultural and human dynamics in southern Arabia at the end of the Middle Paleolithic

Delagnes

Crassard

Bertrán

et al. 2013

Quaternary International

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a b s t r a c tThe Arabian Peninsula has long been considered as a region devoid of long-term human settlement until the Holocene period, as a result of drastic climatic changes throughout the Pleistocene. It might be expected that the area was deserted during hyper-arid and arid periods, and populated by new migrant groups during humid events, according to a "push and pull" phenomenon. Although this scenario may be perfectly valid for a large part of the Peninsula, a set of recent data points to the persistence of populations in several regions, which may have served as refugia for human groups who developed their own technological traditions. Such a scenario is suggested by:(1) The succession of dense human occupations under arid conditions between ca. 60 and 50 ka, in the Wadi Surdud basin, a small sedimentary basin in the foothills of the Yemeni Western Highlands. This archaeological site complex encompasses several successive human settlements characterized by a Middle Paleolithic tradition which significantly differs from the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age contemporaneous traditions from neighboring regions; (2) The regional diversity of the Middle Paleolithic throughout the Saharo-Arabian arid belt during MIS 3, expressed by an array of local techno-typological facies that likely relate to distant and disconnected source regions where populations contracted when climate worsened.Together with a set of high-resolution archaeological contexts recently discovered in the Arabian Peninsula and dated to MIS 5, these data suggest that the major human expansion waves which occurred in the region during the Upper Pleistocene are correlated with the wet phases of MIS 5, while populations probably contracted into a few refugia areas at the beginning of MIS 3.

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“…Map sources: 1, 3, 5, 6, 8-11 (Brandt, 1986, 43); 2 (Clark et al, 2003, 748); 4 (Clark, 1988, 255); 7 (Walter et al, 2000, 66 ); 12 (Clark, 1988, 255); 13 (Van Peer et al, 2003, 188);14-16, 22, 24 (Wendorf & Schild, 1992, 44);17-21, 23 (Van Peer, 1998, S119); 25-31, 33 (Nayeem, 1990, Map 2);32 (McClure, 1994, 2); 34-42 (Shea, personal data). Alphabetical labels represent coastal MP localities from the Arabian Peninsula: A (Whalen, Killick, Morsi, & Kamal, 1981); B (Whalen, Siraj-Ali, Sindi, Pease, & Badein, 1988); C (Zarins, Al-Jawad, & Al-Yish, 1981); D (Whalen & Pease, 1992); E (Amirkhanov, 1994), all cited in Petraglia and Alsharekh (Petraglia & Alsharekh, 2003, 672) Levallois reduction technology occurs widely in the Levant and in NE African sites, with the highest application in the Nile regions. No mention has been made in the Arabian reports about this particular technology.…”

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The Bab al Mandab vs the Nile-Levant: An Appraisal of the Two Dispersal Routes for Early Modern Humans Out of Africa

Beyin

2006

Afr Archaeol Rev

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Research on the Palaeolithic and Neolithic of Hadramaut and Mahra

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Climate change and human occupation in the Southern Arabian lowlands during the last deglaciation and the Holocene

Climate change and human occupation in the Southern Arabian lowlands during the last deglaciation and the Holocene

Cultural and human dynamics in southern Arabia at the end of the Middle Paleolithic

The Bab al Mandab vs the Nile-Levant: An Appraisal of the Two Dispersal Routes for Early Modern Humans Out of Africa

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