ISBN:
9781789692853
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (215 pages)
Serie:
The Archaeological Heritage of Oman Ser. v.5
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
569.9
Schlagwort(e):
Paleoanthropology
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Paleoanthropology
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Kurzfassung:
The archaeological evidence presented in this work encompasses the cultural remains of over a million years of successive human occupation of Nejd Plateau, Dhofar, from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Late Palaeolithic. This volumes suggests a fundamental reconsideration of the role of Southern Arabia in the origin and dispersal of our species.
Kurzfassung:
Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Geography and palaeoenvironments -- The Palaeoclimatic Record and Research Paradigms -- Geographic Scope of the Dhofar Archaeological Project -- The Sultanate of Oman -- The Governorate of Dhofar -- The Nejd Plateau -- Summary -- The Lower Palaeolithic in Dhofar -- The Oldowan -- The Acheulean -- Oldowan in Arabia? -- The Lower Palaeolithic Archaeological Record in Arabia -- Arabian Acheulean -- DAP Lower Palaeolithic Sites -- Lower Palaeolithic Site Distribution -- Lower Palaeolithic Sample Assemblages -- Summary of Lower Palaeolithic Findings -- The Middle Palaeolithic in Dhofar -- DAP Middle Palaeolithic Sites -- Middle Palaeolithic Sample Assemblages -- Summary of Middle Palaeolithic Findings -- The Upper and Late Palaeolithic in Dhofar -- The Arabian Upper Palaeolithic -- The South Arabian Late Palaeolithic -- DAP Upper and Late Palaeolithic Sites -- Upper and Late Palaeolithic Sample Assemblages -- Summary of Upper and Late Palaeolithic Findings -- Conclusions and avenues for future research -- Acheulean Complex -- Palaeolithic Assemblage Types in Dhofar -- Late Lower Palaeolithic Large Blade Group -- The Nubian Tradition -- Late Palaeolithic -- Upper Palaeolithic -- Taphonomic Patterns -- The Dhofar Refugium? -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
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