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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020 United Kingdom, MaltaPublisher:SAGE Publications Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSHuw S. Groucutt; Paul S. Breeze; Maria Guagnin; Mathew Stewart; Nick Drake; Ceri Shipton; Badr Zahrani; Abdulaziz Al Omarfi; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia;Between 10 and six thousand years ago the Arabian Peninsula saw the most recent of the ‘Green Arabia’ periods, when increased rainfall transformed this generally arid region. The transition to the Neolithic in Arabia occurred during this period of climatic amelioration. Various forms of stone structures are abundant in northern Arabia, and it has been speculated that some of these dated to the Neolithic, but there has been little research on their character and chronology. Here we report a study of 104 ‘mustatil’ stone structures from the southern margins of the Nefud Desert in northern Arabia. We provide the first chronometric age estimate for this type of structure – a radiocarbon date of ca. 5000BC – and describe their landscape positions, architecture and associated material culture and faunal remains. The structure we have dated is the oldest large-scale stone structure known from the Arabian Peninsula. The mustatil phenomenon represents a remarkable development of monumental architecture, as hundreds of these structures were built in northwest Arabia. This ‘monumental landscape’ represents one of the earliest large-scale forms of monumental stone structure construction anywhere in the world. Further research is needed to understand the function of these structures, but we hypothesise that they were related to rituals in the context of the adoption of pastoralism and resulting territoriality in the challenging environments of northern Arabia. peer-reviewed
Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2020Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7575307Data sources: PubMed Centraladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen hybrid 21 citations 21 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2020Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7575307Data sources: PubMed Centraladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020 United Kingdom, GermanyPublisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSMaria Guagnin; Paul S. Breeze; Ceri Shipton; Florian Ott; Mathew Stewart; Mark D. Bateman; Louise Martin; Lisa Graham; Sarah el-Dossary; Eleanor Kingwell-Banham; Badr Zahrani; Abdulaziz Al-Omari; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia;Archaeological surveys and excavations in the Jebel Oraf palaeolake basin, north-western Saudi Arabia, have identified a well-preserved early- to mid-Holocene landscape. Two types of occupation site can be distinguished: nine small and ephemeral scatters from single occupation phases on the slopes of sand dunes and three hearth sites indicative of repeated occupation on palaeolake shorelines. In addition, 245 rock art panels, 81 cairns, and 15 stone structures were recorded. This diverse dataset provides an opportunity to reconstruct occupation patterns and changes in landscape use. A particularly important site, Jebel Oraf 2, documents two episodes of lake high stands at ca. 6500 BC and 5300 BC, flooding parts of the locality. Neolithic pastoralists likely occupied the site after the end of the wet season, when the terrain was dry. Earlier sites are located in dune embayments some 7–14 m above the shore of the palaeolake. These locations are consistent with hunting strategies identifiable in the rock art that suggest wildlife was ambushed at watering places. Later rock art at Jebel Oraf also documents the hunting of wild camel in the Iron Age. The lithic industries documented in the Jebel Oraf basin support arguments of repeated contact with Levantine populations.
UCL Discovery arrow_drop_down GFZ German Research Centre for GeosciencesArticle . 2020Data sources: GFZ German Research Centre for GeosciencesJournal of Arid EnvironmentsArticle . 2020 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routeshybrid 20 citations 20 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 11visibility views 11 download downloads 101 Powered bymore_vert UCL Discovery arrow_drop_down GFZ German Research Centre for GeosciencesArticle . 2020Data sources: GFZ German Research Centre for GeosciencesJournal of Arid EnvironmentsArticle . 2020 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2019 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSAuthors: Groucutt, HS; Scerri, EML; Stringer, C; Petraglia, MD;Groucutt, HS; Scerri, EML; Stringer, C; Petraglia, MD;Abstract The Levantine sites of Skhul and Qafzeh have been interpreted as indicating an early, short and unsuccessful expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa. Chronometric age estimates, however, indicate a history of prolonged occupation, and suggest that Skhul (∼130–100 thousand years ago [ka]) may have been occupied earlier than Qafzeh (beginning ∼110–90 ka). Morphologically, the Skhul individuals can be described as somewhat more primitive in comparison to the Qafzeh fossils. Though the lithic assemblages of sites such as Skhul and Qafzeh are often described as being technologically similar, as part of the ‘Tabun C’ phase/industry, limited detailed information on the Skhul lithic assemblage has been published, and little comparative work has been conducted. Here, we present an analysis of the Skhul stone tool assemblage to describe its characteristics, to evaluate the lithic results against the fossil and chronological data, and for inter-site regional comparison. Our findings indicate that the Skhul lithic assemblage differs from other Levantine Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 sites, such as Qafzeh. For example, there was more of an emphasis on diverse methods of point production at Skhul, and the available samples indicate a greater emphasis on preferential rather than recurrent Levallois reduction at Skhul. The current findings suggest that neither the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic in general, nor MIS 5 assemblages in particular, were technologically homogeneous. These data are consistent with either a long occupation of the Levant by Homo sapiens in MIS 5, or at least two phases of occupation (early MIS 5 and mid to late MIS). Whatever the fate of the Skhul and Qafzeh population(s), their occupation of the Levant was neither short nor culturally uniform. Our findings add to the growing pool of evidence that the dispersal of our species ‘Out of Africa’ was more complex than hitherto thought. Further work on MIS 5e contexts in the Levant and elsewhere in Southwest Asia should be a research priority.
Oxford University Re... arrow_drop_down Oxford University Research ArchiveArticle . 2018License: CC BY NC NDData sources: Oxford University Research Archiveadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routeshybrid 34 citations 34 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 6visibility views 6 download downloads 224 Powered bymore_vert Oxford University Re... arrow_drop_down Oxford University Research ArchiveArticle . 2018License: CC BY NC NDData sources: Oxford University Research Archiveadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018 Malta, United KingdomPublisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLC Funded by:EC | aWARE, EC | PALAEOCHRON, EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| aWARE ,EC| PALAEOCHRON ,EC| PALAEODESERTSEleanor M. L. Scerri; Ceri Shipton; Laine Clark-Balzan; Marine Frouin; Jean-Luc Schwenninger; Huw S. Groucutt; Paul S. Breeze; Ash Parton; James Blinkhorn; Nick Drake; Richard P. Jennings; Patrick Cuthbertson; Abdulaziz al Omari; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia;pmc: PMC6265249
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The Acheulean is the longest lasting cultural–technological tradition in human evolutionary history. However, considerable gaps remain in understanding the chronology and geographical distribution of Acheulean hominins. We present the first chronometrically dated Acheulean site from the Arabian Peninsula, a vast and poorly known region that forms more than half of Southwest Asia. Results show that Acheulean hominin occupation expanded along hydrological networks into the heart of Arabia from Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 7 until at least ~190 ka ̶ the youngest documented Acheulean in Southwest Asia. The site of Saffaqah features Acheulean technology, characterized by large flakes, handaxes and cleavers, similar to Acheulean assemblages in Africa. These findings reveal a climatically-mediated later Acheulean expansion into a poorly known region, amplifying the documented diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominin behaviour across the Old World and elaborating the terminal archaic landscape encountered by our species as they dispersed out of Africa. peer-reviewed
Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2018Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6265249Data sources: PubMed CentralOxford University Research Archive; Scientific ReportsArticle . 2019 . 2018 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYOxford Brookes University: RADARArticle . 2018License: CC BYData sources: Oxford Brookes University: RADARadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 31 citations 31 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 12visibility views 12 download downloads 30 Powered bymore_vert Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2018Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6265249Data sources: PubMed CentralOxford University Research Archive; Scientific ReportsArticle . 2019 . 2018 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYOxford Brookes University: RADARArticle . 2018License: CC BYData sources: Oxford Brookes University: RADARadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018Publisher:Public Library of Science (PLoS) Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSCeri Shipton; James Blinkhorn; Paul S Breeze; Patrick Cuthbertson; Nick Drake; Huw S Groucutt; Richard P Jennings; Ash Parton; Eleanor M L Scerri; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D Petraglia;Despite occupying a central geographic position, investigations of hominin populations in the Arabian Peninsula during the Lower Palaeolithic period are rare. The colonization of Eurasia below 55 degrees latitude indicates the success of the genus Homo in the Early and Middle Pleistocene, but the extent to which these hominins were capable of innovative and novel behavioural adaptations to engage with mid-latitude environments is unclear. Here we describe new field investigations at the Saffaqah locality (206–76) near Dawadmi, in central Arabia that aim to establish how hominins adapted to this region. The site is located in the interior of Arabia over 500 km from both the Red Sea and the Gulf, and at the headwaters of two major extinct river systems that were likely used by Acheulean hominins to cross the Peninsula. Saffaqah is one of the largest Acheulean sites in Arabia with nearly a million artefacts estimated to occur on the surface, and it is also the first to yield stratified deposits containing abundant artefacts. It is situated in the unusual setting of a dense and well-preserved landscape of Acheulean localities, with sites and isolated artefacts occurring regularly for tens of kilometres in every direction. We describe both previous and recent excavations at Saffaqah and its large lithic assemblage. We analyse thousands of artefacts from excavated and surface contexts, including giant andesite cores and flakes, smaller cores and retouched artefacts, as well as handaxes and cleavers. Technological assessment of stratified lithics and those from systematic survey, enable the reconstruction of stone tool life histories. The Acheulean hominins at Dawadmi were strong and skilful, with their adaptation evidently successful for some time. However, these biface-makers were also technologically conservative, and used least-effort strategies of resource procurement and tool transport. Ultimately, central Arabia was depopulated, likely in the face of environmental deterioration in the form of increasing aridity.
Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2018Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6063418Data sources: PubMed CentralEurope PubMed CentralArticle . 2018Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6128555Data sources: PubMed Centraladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018 United KingdomPublisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLC Funded by:ARC | ARC Future Fellowships - ..., EC | ADAPT, ARC | ARC Future Fellowships - ... +2 projectsARC| ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT160100450 ,EC| ADAPT ,ARC| ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT150100215 ,ARC| Understanding the migrations of prehistoric populations through direct dating and isotopic tracking of their mobility patterns ,EC| PALAEODESERTSHuw S. Groucutt; Rainer Grün; Iyad A. S. Zalmout; Nick Drake; Simon J. Armitage; Ian Candy; Richard Clark-Wilson; Julien Louys; Paul S. Breeze; Mathieu Duval; Laura T. Buck; Tracy L. Kivell; Emma Pomeroy; Nicholas B. Stephens; Jay T. Stock; Mathew Stewart; Gilbert J. Price; Leslie Kinsley; Wing Wai Sung; Abdullah Alsharekh; Abdulaziz Al-Omari; Muhammad Zahir; Abdullah M. Memesh; Ammar J. Abdulshakoor; Abdu M. Al-Masari; Ahmed A. Bahameem; Khaled M. S. Al Murayyi; Badr Zahrani; Eleanor L. M. Scerri; Michael D. Petraglia;pmc: PMC5935238
Understanding the timing and character of the expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa is critical for inferring the colonization and admixture processes that underpin global population history. It has been argued that dispersal out of Africa had an early phase, particularly ~130–90 thousand years ago (ka), that reached only the East Mediterranean Levant, and a later phase, ~60–50 ka, that extended across the diverse environments of Eurasia to Sahul. However, recent findings from East Asia and Sahul challenge this model. Here we show that H. sapiens was in the Arabian Peninsula before 85 ka. We describe the Al Wusta-1 (AW-1) intermediate phalanx from the site of Al Wusta in the Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia. AW-1 is the oldest directly dated fossil of our species outside Africa and the Levant. The palaeoenvironmental context of Al Wusta demonstrates that H. sapiens using Middle Palaeolithic stone tools dispersed into Arabia during a phase of increased precipitation driven by orbital forcing, in association with a primarily African fauna. A Bayesian model incorporating independent chronometric age estimates indicates a chronology for Al Wusta of ~95–86 ka, which we correlate with a humid episode in the later part of Marine Isotope Stage 5 known from various regional records. Al Wusta shows that early dispersals were more spatially and temporally extensive than previously thought. Early H. sapiens dispersals out of Africa were not limited to winter rainfall-fed Levantine Mediterranean woodlands immediately adjacent to Africa, but extended deep into the semi-arid grasslands of Arabia, facilitated by periods of enhanced monsoonal rainfall.
Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2018Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5935238Data sources: PubMed CentralNature Ecology & EvolutionArticle . 2018 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Springer Nature TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018 United KingdomPublisher:Wiley Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSMaria Guagnin; Ceri Shipton; Sarah el-Dossary; Moudhy al-Rashid; Farès Moussa; Mathew Stewart; Florian Ott; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia;doi: 10.1111/jbi.13165
AbstractAimOur knowledge of the prehistoric distribution of animal species is so far largely dependent on the location of excavated archaeological and palaeontological sites. In the absence of excavated faunal remains, many species that were present in the Levant and North Africa have been assumed to have been absent on the Arabian Peninsula. Here, we explore representations of four species that were identifiable in the rock art, but had not previously been reported in north‐western Arabia.LocationJubbah and Shuwaymis UNESCO world heritage rock art sites in Ha'il province, north‐western Saudi Arabia.MethodsIn total, the rock art panels surveyed and recorded in Jubbah and Shuwaymis contain 6,618 individual animal depictions. Species were identified based on diagnostic features of the anatomy. The resulting dataset was then compared to the faunal spectrum reported in the (archaeo)zoological literature.ResultsThe rock art dataset provides evidence that the distributions of lesser kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis), wild camel and African wild ass (Equus africanus) extended into the north‐west of Arabia and that the engravers may have had knowledge of aurochs (Bos primigenius).Main conclusionsThe presence of previously undocumented mammal species in Arabia provides new information regarding their distribution, as well as the types of habitat and vegetation that were available in prehistoric landscapes. Moreover, the presence of kudu on the Arabian Peninsula indicates that the identification of palaeo‐distributions based exclusively on faunal remains may miss key species in the Afro‐Eurasian faunal exchange.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesbronze 18 citations 18 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 35visibility views 35 download downloads 196 Powered bymore_vert Oxford University Re... arrow_drop_down Journal of BiogeographyArticle . 2018 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Wiley Online Library User AgreementData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017 United KingdomPublisher:Wiley Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSMaria Guagnin; Ceri Shipton; Moudhy al-Rashid; Farès Moussa; Sarah el-Dossary; Mona Bin Sleimah; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia;doi: 10.1111/aae.12089
AbstractA systematic survey of rock art and associated archaeological features in the Jubbah oasis provides evidence of Holocene occupation from the early Holocene to the present. In total 1249 panels with rock art and inscriptions, and 159 archaeological sites, were recorded on twelve different jebels. Analyses of rock art content and engraving stratigraphy indicate that the iconic Jubbah style had a long tradition among pre‐pastoral hunters and continued to be used by early herders. We also identify a distinct body of rock art that pre‐dates the Jubbah style and may be associated with a nearby Epipalaeolithic site. Our systematic dataset identifies a body of Bronze Age rock art that is further supported by the material culture and radiocarbon dates obtained from the remains of disturbed cairns. The rock art in Jubbah appears to have been created throughout the Holocene occupation of the oasis and similarities in the representation of animals, choice of location and content of rock art scenes are evident from the Bronze Age to the early modern period, and perhaps into the twentieth century. Moreover, rock art and epigraphy suggest that occupation phases in Jubbah were sustained long enough for the repeated development of unique local characteristics throughout the Holocene.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesbronze 27 citations 27 popularity Top 10% influence Top 10% impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 15visibility views 15 download downloads 121 Powered bymore_vert Oxford University Re... arrow_drop_down Arabian archaeology and epigraphyArticle . 2017 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Wiley Online Library User AgreementData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:ARC | Understanding modern huma..., EC | PALAEODESERTSARC| Understanding modern human dispersal, adaptation and behaviour en route to Australia ,EC| PALAEODESERTSPaul S. Breeze; Huw S. Groucutt; Nick Drake; Julien Louys; Eleanor M. L. Scerri; Simon J. Armitage; Iyad S. Zalmout; Abdullah M. Memesh; Mohammed A. Haptari; Saleh A. Soubhi; Adel H. Matari; Muhammad Zahir; Abdulaziz Al-Omari; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia;Mid-latitude dune fields offer significant records of human occupations in southwest Asia, reflecting human responses to past climate changes. Currently arid, but episodically wetter in the past, the Nefud desert of northern Saudi Arabia provides numerous examples of human-environment interactions and population movements in the desert belt. Here we describe results from interdisciplinary surveys in the western Nefud that targeted palaeolake deposits identified using satellite imagery. Surveys indicate the presence of thousands of discrete palaeolakes and palaeowetlands, providing valuable palaeoenvironmental records, and numerous archaeological and palaeontological assemblages. Geomorphological investigations suggest that many further deposits remain buried. Forty-six prehistoric archaeological sites have been identified in association with freshwater deposits, spanning the Lower Palaeolithic to the pre-Islamic Holocene. Lower Palaeolithic sites appear concentrated close to raw material sources near the Nefud fringe, despite the presence of freshwater and fauna deeper in the dune field. Middle Palaeolithic occupations extend more broadly, and by the early Holocene humans were at least periodically occupying areas deep in the desert. We present the first records of Neolithic sites in this dune field, including substantial hearth complexes distributed relatively deep within the dunes, potentially indicating increased mobility during this period. Later Holocene sites with stone structures are present around the dune fringes. Our results indicate that, during wet periods of the Pleistocene and Holocene, water in the western Nefud may have been more readily available than elsewhere in northern Arabia due to the high density of depressions where wetlands can form. The high frequency of lakes or marshes appears to have facilitated human occupations and dispersal through the region.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSAuthors: Maria Guagnin; Ceri Shipton; Louise Martin; Michael D. Petraglia;Maria Guagnin; Ceri Shipton; Louise Martin; Michael D. Petraglia;The archaeological record of the Arabian Neolithic remains extremely fragmentary. Archaeological sites containing faunal remains of early domesticates are extremely rare and only a few sites yielding these have been excavated in Yemen and along the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Neolithisation models have therefore had to infer population dynamics and subsistence changes across vast distances. Here we present the first report of a newly discovered Neolithic site in the Jubbah oasis, on the southern edge of the Nefud desert. The site is located on the margin of palaeolake deposits and consists of a large cluster of at least 170 visible hearths. Test excavation of two hearth features yielded radiocarbon ages between 5200 and 5070. BCE. Abundant lithics consisted of both ground and chipped stone artefacts, some of which recall the Pottery Neolithic in the Levant. Some 15 fragments of Bos dentition were also recovered. The age of the site raises the distinct possibility that the faunal remains represent domestic cattle. The nature of the site, with evidence for repeated occupation, may therefore indicate seasonal use by pastoralists. The site of Jebel Oraf 2 promises to fill a major geographic gap in our understanding of the Neolithisation process in Arabia.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020 United Kingdom, MaltaPublisher:SAGE Publications Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSHuw S. Groucutt; Paul S. Breeze; Maria Guagnin; Mathew Stewart; Nick Drake; Ceri Shipton; Badr Zahrani; Abdulaziz Al Omarfi; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia;Between 10 and six thousand years ago the Arabian Peninsula saw the most recent of the ‘Green Arabia’ periods, when increased rainfall transformed this generally arid region. The transition to the Neolithic in Arabia occurred during this period of climatic amelioration. Various forms of stone structures are abundant in northern Arabia, and it has been speculated that some of these dated to the Neolithic, but there has been little research on their character and chronology. Here we report a study of 104 ‘mustatil’ stone structures from the southern margins of the Nefud Desert in northern Arabia. We provide the first chronometric age estimate for this type of structure – a radiocarbon date of ca. 5000BC – and describe their landscape positions, architecture and associated material culture and faunal remains. The structure we have dated is the oldest large-scale stone structure known from the Arabian Peninsula. The mustatil phenomenon represents a remarkable development of monumental architecture, as hundreds of these structures were built in northwest Arabia. This ‘monumental landscape’ represents one of the earliest large-scale forms of monumental stone structure construction anywhere in the world. Further research is needed to understand the function of these structures, but we hypothesise that they were related to rituals in the context of the adoption of pastoralism and resulting territoriality in the challenging environments of northern Arabia. peer-reviewed
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020 United Kingdom, GermanyPublisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSMaria Guagnin; Paul S. Breeze; Ceri Shipton; Florian Ott; Mathew Stewart; Mark D. Bateman; Louise Martin; Lisa Graham; Sarah el-Dossary; Eleanor Kingwell-Banham; Badr Zahrani; Abdulaziz Al-Omari; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia;Archaeological surveys and excavations in the Jebel Oraf palaeolake basin, north-western Saudi Arabia, have identified a well-preserved early- to mid-Holocene landscape. Two types of occupation site can be distinguished: nine small and ephemeral scatters from single occupation phases on the slopes of sand dunes and three hearth sites indicative of repeated occupation on palaeolake shorelines. In addition, 245 rock art panels, 81 cairns, and 15 stone structures were recorded. This diverse dataset provides an opportunity to reconstruct occupation patterns and changes in landscape use. A particularly important site, Jebel Oraf 2, documents two episodes of lake high stands at ca. 6500 BC and 5300 BC, flooding parts of the locality. Neolithic pastoralists likely occupied the site after the end of the wet season, when the terrain was dry. Earlier sites are located in dune embayments some 7–14 m above the shore of the palaeolake. These locations are consistent with hunting strategies identifiable in the rock art that suggest wildlife was ambushed at watering places. Later rock art at Jebel Oraf also documents the hunting of wild camel in the Iron Age. The lithic industries documented in the Jebel Oraf basin support arguments of repeated contact with Levantine populations.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2019 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSAuthors: Groucutt, HS; Scerri, EML; Stringer, C; Petraglia, MD;Groucutt, HS; Scerri, EML; Stringer, C; Petraglia, MD;Abstract The Levantine sites of Skhul and Qafzeh have been interpreted as indicating an early, short and unsuccessful expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa. Chronometric age estimates, however, indicate a history of prolonged occupation, and suggest that Skhul (∼130–100 thousand years ago [ka]) may have been occupied earlier than Qafzeh (beginning ∼110–90 ka). Morphologically, the Skhul individuals can be described as somewhat more primitive in comparison to the Qafzeh fossils. Though the lithic assemblages of sites such as Skhul and Qafzeh are often described as being technologically similar, as part of the ‘Tabun C’ phase/industry, limited detailed information on the Skhul lithic assemblage has been published, and little comparative work has been conducted. Here, we present an analysis of the Skhul stone tool assemblage to describe its characteristics, to evaluate the lithic results against the fossil and chronological data, and for inter-site regional comparison. Our findings indicate that the Skhul lithic assemblage differs from other Levantine Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 sites, such as Qafzeh. For example, there was more of an emphasis on diverse methods of point production at Skhul, and the available samples indicate a greater emphasis on preferential rather than recurrent Levallois reduction at Skhul. The current findings suggest that neither the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic in general, nor MIS 5 assemblages in particular, were technologically homogeneous. These data are consistent with either a long occupation of the Levant by Homo sapiens in MIS 5, or at least two phases of occupation (early MIS 5 and mid to late MIS). Whatever the fate of the Skhul and Qafzeh population(s), their occupation of the Levant was neither short nor culturally uniform. Our findings add to the growing pool of evidence that the dispersal of our species ‘Out of Africa’ was more complex than hitherto thought. Further work on MIS 5e contexts in the Levant and elsewhere in Southwest Asia should be a research priority.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018 Malta, United KingdomPublisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLC Funded by:EC | aWARE, EC | PALAEOCHRON, EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| aWARE ,EC| PALAEOCHRON ,EC| PALAEODESERTSEleanor M. L. Scerri; Ceri Shipton; Laine Clark-Balzan; Marine Frouin; Jean-Luc Schwenninger; Huw S. Groucutt; Paul S. Breeze; Ash Parton; James Blinkhorn; Nick Drake; Richard P. Jennings; Patrick Cuthbertson; Abdulaziz al Omari; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia;pmc: PMC6265249
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The Acheulean is the longest lasting cultural–technological tradition in human evolutionary history. However, considerable gaps remain in understanding the chronology and geographical distribution of Acheulean hominins. We present the first chronometrically dated Acheulean site from the Arabian Peninsula, a vast and poorly known region that forms more than half of Southwest Asia. Results show that Acheulean hominin occupation expanded along hydrological networks into the heart of Arabia from Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 7 until at least ~190 ka ̶ the youngest documented Acheulean in Southwest Asia. The site of Saffaqah features Acheulean technology, characterized by large flakes, handaxes and cleavers, similar to Acheulean assemblages in Africa. These findings reveal a climatically-mediated later Acheulean expansion into a poorly known region, amplifying the documented diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominin behaviour across the Old World and elaborating the terminal archaic landscape encountered by our species as they dispersed out of Africa. peer-reviewed
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018Publisher:Public Library of Science (PLoS) Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSCeri Shipton; James Blinkhorn; Paul S Breeze; Patrick Cuthbertson; Nick Drake; Huw S Groucutt; Richard P Jennings; Ash Parton; Eleanor M L Scerri; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D Petraglia;Despite occupying a central geographic position, investigations of hominin populations in the Arabian Peninsula during the Lower Palaeolithic period are rare. The colonization of Eurasia below 55 degrees latitude indicates the success of the genus Homo in the Early and Middle Pleistocene, but the extent to which these hominins were capable of innovative and novel behavioural adaptations to engage with mid-latitude environments is unclear. Here we describe new field investigations at the Saffaqah locality (206–76) near Dawadmi, in central Arabia that aim to establish how hominins adapted to this region. The site is located in the interior of Arabia over 500 km from both the Red Sea and the Gulf, and at the headwaters of two major extinct river systems that were likely used by Acheulean hominins to cross the Peninsula. Saffaqah is one of the largest Acheulean sites in Arabia with nearly a million artefacts estimated to occur on the surface, and it is also the first to yield stratified deposits containing abundant artefacts. It is situated in the unusual setting of a dense and well-preserved landscape of Acheulean localities, with sites and isolated artefacts occurring regularly for tens of kilometres in every direction. We describe both previous and recent excavations at Saffaqah and its large lithic assemblage. We analyse thousands of artefacts from excavated and surface contexts, including giant andesite cores and flakes, smaller cores and retouched artefacts, as well as handaxes and cleavers. Technological assessment of stratified lithics and those from systematic survey, enable the reconstruction of stone tool life histories. The Acheulean hominins at Dawadmi were strong and skilful, with their adaptation evidently successful for some time. However, these biface-makers were also technologically conservative, and used least-effort strategies of resource procurement and tool transport. Ultimately, central Arabia was depopulated, likely in the face of environmental deterioration in the form of increasing aridity.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018 United KingdomPublisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLC Funded by:ARC | ARC Future Fellowships - ..., EC | ADAPT, ARC | ARC Future Fellowships - ... +2 projectsARC| ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT160100450 ,EC| ADAPT ,ARC| ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT150100215 ,ARC| Understanding the migrations of prehistoric populations through direct dating and isotopic tracking of their mobility patterns ,EC| PALAEODESERTSHuw S. Groucutt; Rainer Grün; Iyad A. S. Zalmout; Nick Drake; Simon J. Armitage; Ian Candy; Richard Clark-Wilson; Julien Louys; Paul S. Breeze; Mathieu Duval; Laura T. Buck; Tracy L. Kivell; Emma Pomeroy; Nicholas B. Stephens; Jay T. Stock; Mathew Stewart; Gilbert J. Price; Leslie Kinsley; Wing Wai Sung; Abdullah Alsharekh; Abdulaziz Al-Omari; Muhammad Zahir; Abdullah M. Memesh; Ammar J. Abdulshakoor; Abdu M. Al-Masari; Ahmed A. Bahameem; Khaled M. S. Al Murayyi; Badr Zahrani; Eleanor L. M. Scerri; Michael D. Petraglia;pmc: PMC5935238
Understanding the timing and character of the expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa is critical for inferring the colonization and admixture processes that underpin global population history. It has been argued that dispersal out of Africa had an early phase, particularly ~130–90 thousand years ago (ka), that reached only the East Mediterranean Levant, and a later phase, ~60–50 ka, that extended across the diverse environments of Eurasia to Sahul. However, recent findings from East Asia and Sahul challenge this model. Here we show that H. sapiens was in the Arabian Peninsula before 85 ka. We describe the Al Wusta-1 (AW-1) intermediate phalanx from the site of Al Wusta in the Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia. AW-1 is the oldest directly dated fossil of our species outside Africa and the Levant. The palaeoenvironmental context of Al Wusta demonstrates that H. sapiens using Middle Palaeolithic stone tools dispersed into Arabia during a phase of increased precipitation driven by orbital forcing, in association with a primarily African fauna. A Bayesian model incorporating independent chronometric age estimates indicates a chronology for Al Wusta of ~95–86 ka, which we correlate with a humid episode in the later part of Marine Isotope Stage 5 known from various regional records. Al Wusta shows that early dispersals were more spatially and temporally extensive than previously thought. Early H. sapiens dispersals out of Africa were not limited to winter rainfall-fed Levantine Mediterranean woodlands immediately adjacent to Africa, but extended deep into the semi-arid grasslands of Arabia, facilitated by periods of enhanced monsoonal rainfall.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018 United KingdomPublisher:Wiley Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSMaria Guagnin; Ceri Shipton; Sarah el-Dossary; Moudhy al-Rashid; Farès Moussa; Mathew Stewart; Florian Ott; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia;doi: 10.1111/jbi.13165
AbstractAimOur knowledge of the prehistoric distribution of animal species is so far largely dependent on the location of excavated archaeological and palaeontological sites. In the absence of excavated faunal remains, many species that were present in the Levant and North Africa have been assumed to have been absent on the Arabian Peninsula. Here, we explore representations of four species that were identifiable in the rock art, but had not previously been reported in north‐western Arabia.LocationJubbah and Shuwaymis UNESCO world heritage rock art sites in Ha'il province, north‐western Saudi Arabia.MethodsIn total, the rock art panels surveyed and recorded in Jubbah and Shuwaymis contain 6,618 individual animal depictions. Species were identified based on diagnostic features of the anatomy. The resulting dataset was then compared to the faunal spectrum reported in the (archaeo)zoological literature.ResultsThe rock art dataset provides evidence that the distributions of lesser kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis), wild camel and African wild ass (Equus africanus) extended into the north‐west of Arabia and that the engravers may have had knowledge of aurochs (Bos primigenius).Main conclusionsThe presence of previously undocumented mammal species in Arabia provides new information regarding their distribution, as well as the types of habitat and vegetation that were available in prehistoric landscapes. Moreover, the presence of kudu on the Arabian Peninsula indicates that the identification of palaeo‐distributions based exclusively on faunal remains may miss key species in the Afro‐Eurasian faunal exchange.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesbronze 18 citations 18 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 35visibility views 35 download downloads 196 Powered bymore_vert Oxford University Re... arrow_drop_down Journal of BiogeographyArticle . 2018 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Wiley Online Library User AgreementData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017 United KingdomPublisher:Wiley Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSMaria Guagnin; Ceri Shipton; Moudhy al-Rashid; Farès Moussa; Sarah el-Dossary; Mona Bin Sleimah; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia;doi: 10.1111/aae.12089
AbstractA systematic survey of rock art and associated archaeological features in the Jubbah oasis provides evidence of Holocene occupation from the early Holocene to the present. In total 1249 panels with rock art and inscriptions, and 159 archaeological sites, were recorded on twelve different jebels. Analyses of rock art content and engraving stratigraphy indicate that the iconic Jubbah style had a long tradition among pre‐pastoral hunters and continued to be used by early herders. We also identify a distinct body of rock art that pre‐dates the Jubbah style and may be associated with a nearby Epipalaeolithic site. Our systematic dataset identifies a body of Bronze Age rock art that is further supported by the material culture and radiocarbon dates obtained from the remains of disturbed cairns. The rock art in Jubbah appears to have been created throughout the Holocene occupation of the oasis and similarities in the representation of animals, choice of location and content of rock art scenes are evident from the Bronze Age to the early modern period, and perhaps into the twentieth century. Moreover, rock art and epigraphy suggest that occupation phases in Jubbah were sustained long enough for the repeated development of unique local characteristics throughout the Holocene.
Oxford University Re... arrow_drop_down Arabian archaeology and epigraphyArticle . 2017 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Wiley Online Library User AgreementData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesbronze 27 citations 27 popularity Top 10% influence Top 10% impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 15visibility views 15 download downloads 121 Powered bymore_vert Oxford University Re... arrow_drop_down Arabian archaeology and epigraphyArticle . 2017 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Wiley Online Library User AgreementData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:ARC | Understanding modern huma..., EC | PALAEODESERTSARC| Understanding modern human dispersal, adaptation and behaviour en route to Australia ,EC| PALAEODESERTSPaul S. Breeze; Huw S. Groucutt; Nick Drake; Julien Louys; Eleanor M. L. Scerri; Simon J. Armitage; Iyad S. Zalmout; Abdullah M. Memesh; Mohammed A. Haptari; Saleh A. Soubhi; Adel H. Matari; Muhammad Zahir; Abdulaziz Al-Omari; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia;Mid-latitude dune fields offer significant records of human occupations in southwest Asia, reflecting human responses to past climate changes. Currently arid, but episodically wetter in the past, the Nefud desert of northern Saudi Arabia provides numerous examples of human-environment interactions and population movements in the desert belt. Here we describe results from interdisciplinary surveys in the western Nefud that targeted palaeolake deposits identified using satellite imagery. Surveys indicate the presence of thousands of discrete palaeolakes and palaeowetlands, providing valuable palaeoenvironmental records, and numerous archaeological and palaeontological assemblages. Geomorphological investigations suggest that many further deposits remain buried. Forty-six prehistoric archaeological sites have been identified in association with freshwater deposits, spanning the Lower Palaeolithic to the pre-Islamic Holocene. Lower Palaeolithic sites appear concentrated close to raw material sources near the Nefud fringe, despite the presence of freshwater and fauna deeper in the dune field. Middle Palaeolithic occupations extend more broadly, and by the early Holocene humans were at least periodically occupying areas deep in the desert. We present the first records of Neolithic sites in this dune field, including substantial hearth complexes distributed relatively deep within the dunes, potentially indicating increased mobility during this period. Later Holocene sites with stone structures are present around the dune fringes. Our results indicate that, during wet periods of the Pleistocene and Holocene, water in the western Nefud may have been more readily available than elsewhere in northern Arabia due to the high density of depressions where wetlands can form. The high frequency of lakes or marshes appears to have facilitated human occupations and dispersal through the region.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routeshybrid 24 citations 24 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 4visibility views 4 download downloads 83 Powered bymore_vert King's Research Port... arrow_drop_down Oxford University Research ArchiveArticle . 2017License: CC BY NC NDData sources: Oxford University Research Archiveadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:EC | PALAEODESERTSEC| PALAEODESERTSAuthors: Maria Guagnin; Ceri Shipton; Louise Martin; Michael D. Petraglia;Maria Guagnin; Ceri Shipton; Louise Martin; Michael D. Petraglia;The archaeological record of the Arabian Neolithic remains extremely fragmentary. Archaeological sites containing faunal remains of early domesticates are extremely rare and only a few sites yielding these have been excavated in Yemen and along the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Neolithisation models have therefore had to infer population dynamics and subsistence changes across vast distances. Here we present the first report of a newly discovered Neolithic site in the Jubbah oasis, on the southern edge of the Nefud desert. The site is located on the margin of palaeolake deposits and consists of a large cluster of at least 170 visible hearths. Test excavation of two hearth features yielded radiocarbon ages between 5200 and 5070. BCE. Abundant lithics consisted of both ground and chipped stone artefacts, some of which recall the Pottery Neolithic in the Levant. Some 15 fragments of Bos dentition were also recovered. The age of the site raises the distinct possibility that the faunal remains represent domestic cattle. The nature of the site, with evidence for repeated occupation, may therefore indicate seasonal use by pastoralists. The site of Jebel Oraf 2 promises to fill a major geographic gap in our understanding of the Neolithisation process in Arabia.
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