The Early Neolithic Site of Ayn Abū Nukhayla, Southern Jordan

Henry, Donald O.; Córdova, Carlos E.; White, Judith; Dean, Rebecca; Beaver, Joseph E.; Ekstrom, Heidi; Kadowaki, Seiji; McCorriston, Joy; Nowell, April; Scott-Cummings, Linda

doi:10.2307/1357837

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“…Their depiction in Jubbah may therefore be an indication of links to the caprine herders attested in the steppe of eastern Jordan (see e.g. Betts, ; Henry et al., ; Rollefson, Rowan, & Wasse, ).…”

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An illustrated prehistory of the Jubbah oasis: Reconstructing Holocene occupation patterns in north‐western Saudi Arabia from rock art and inscriptions

Guagnin

Shipton

Al-Rashid

et al. 2017

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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A 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 wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/aae Arab Arch Epig. 2017;28:138-152.

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An illustrated prehistory of the Jubbah oasis: Reconstructing Holocene occupation patterns in north‐western Saudi Arabia from rock art and inscriptions

Guagnin

Shipton

Al-Rashid

et al. 2017

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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“…In Anatolia, cattle herding appears to have been well established by the eighth millennium bc (Peters, Buitenhuis, Grupe, Schmidt, & Pöllath, ), while in southern Arabia, domestic cattle are known from the late sixth millennium bc (McCorriston & Martin, ). In the more arid regions of eastern and southern Jordan, livestock was dominated by caprine herding (Martin & Edwards, ; see also Henry et al., ; Rollefson, Rowan, & Wasse, ).…”

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Rock art provides new evidence on the biogeography of kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis), wild dromedary, aurochs (Bos primigenius) and African wild ass (Equus africanus) in the early and middle Holocene of north‐western Arabia

Guagnin

Shipton

el-Dossary

et al. 2018

Journal of Biogeography

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Aim Our 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. Location Jubbah and Shuwaymis UNESCO world heritage rock art sites in Ha'il province, north‐western Saudi Arabia. Methods In 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. Results The 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 conclusions The 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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“…At the same time, even in the early Neolithic, large, village-like settlements are not the only types of sites (although research has tended to focus on them). There are numerous small, more transitory camps situated in other regions that relate to more mobile pastoralists (Garrard et al 1996;Henry et al 2003). Indeed, large LPPNB sites are thought to have depended on an increasingly pastoralist economy as local feeding grounds may have become overexploited.…”

Section: The Epipalaeolithic Todaymentioning

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Terminology, process and change: reflections on the Epipalaeolithic of South-west Asia

Richter¹,

Maher²

2013

Levant

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The term Epipalaeolithic, like the Neolithic, was coined in the context of late 19th-and early 20th-century archaeological research in Europe and North Africa. It arrived later in South-west Asia, where it was used to contrast late glacial hunter-gatherers with the sedentary, socially complex farmers of the Holocene aceramic Neolithic. In this contribution we reflect on the history of Epipalaeolithic terminology, its past and current use as an interpretive heuristic, and consider how data from recent research affect (and perhaps call into question) the validity and perceived meaning of the term as it is applied to the Neolithic transition in South-west Asia.

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The Early Neolithic Site of Ayn Abū Nukhayla, Southern Jordan

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An illustrated prehistory of the Jubbah oasis: Reconstructing Holocene occupation patterns in north‐western Saudi Arabia from rock art and inscriptions

An illustrated prehistory of the Jubbah oasis: Reconstructing Holocene occupation patterns in north‐western Saudi Arabia from rock art and inscriptions

Rock art provides new evidence on the biogeography of kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis), wild dromedary, aurochs (Bos primigenius) and African wild ass (Equus africanus) in the early and middle Holocene of north‐western Arabia

Terminology, process and change: reflections on the Epipalaeolithic of South-west Asia

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