Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution

Henry, Donald O.

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“…Table 1 Technological and typological attributes from the main Levantine, Arabian and East-African assemblages dated between 100 and 50 ka (1. Henry, 1995;2. Munday, 1977;3.…”

Section: Mis 3 Regional Contractionsmentioning

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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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“…Table 1 Technological and typological attributes from the main Levantine, Arabian and East-African assemblages dated between 100 and 50 ka (1. Henry, 1995;2. Munday, 1977;3.…”

Section: Mis 3 Regional Contractionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Delagnes

Crassard

Bertrán

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“…However, we are still far from having a fully established chronology that will enable us to concentrate solely on the cultural issues. The current state of indecision over definitions and interpretations is quite evident in regional or site summaries (e.g., Bar-Yosef 1989, 1996Marks 1990Marks , 1992Henry 1995;Marks and Monigal 1995;Meignen 1995;Hovers 1997, this volume). This situation is exemplified by the proposal that the "Tabun D-type" industry persisted in the semi-arid belt of the Negev and southern Jordan for a very long time and was contemporary with "Tabun C-type" and "Tabun B-type" in the Carmel-Galilee area (Henry 1995;Marks and Monigal 1995;and see Klein 1993 for a different view).…”

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The Chronology of the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant

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Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia

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“…Close to the well-known desert castle of Kharaneh, Mujahed Muheisen excavated the Epipalaeolithic site of Kharaneh IV in the 1980s (Muheisen 1988); Lisa Maher and Tobias Richter resumed work there a few years ago (Richter et al 2013). In the late 1970s and the 1980s, Donald O. Henry undertook intensive surveys in Southern Jordan in the Judayid Basin and regions around Jebel Qalkha, Jebel el Mu'eisi Mishraq, and Jebel Hamra, investigating the prehistoric periods from the Palaeolithic to the Chalcolithic (Henry 1995). He also undertook excavations at the PPNB site of 'Ain Abu Nukhayla in Wadi Rum in the late 1990s and early 2000s (Henry et al 2003).…”

Section: Recent Research On the Late Prehistory Of The Arid Regions Imentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the late 1970s and the 1980s, Donald O. Henry undertook intensive surveys in Southern Jordan in the Judayid Basin and regions around Jebel Qalkha, Jebel el Mu'eisi Mishraq, and Jebel Hamra, investigating the prehistoric periods from the Palaeolithic to the Chalcolithic (Henry 1995). He also undertook excavations at the PPNB site of 'Ain Abu Nukhayla in Wadi Rum in the late 1990s and early 2000s (Henry et al 2003).…”

Section: Recent Research On the Late Prehistory Of The Arid Regions Imentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, some also revealed evidence for Late Prehistoric occupations, in particular the surveys directed by Betts (1998Betts ( , 2013 in the Northern Badia; the Azraq wetland survey by Rollefson, Wilke, and Quintero (Rollefson et al 2001); and the survey activities directed by Donald O. Henry (1995) in the south of Jordan.…”

Section: Recent Research On the Late Prehistory Of The Arid Regions Imentioning

confidence: 99%

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