Transition to agriculture in South‐Eastern Arabia: Insights from oral conditions

Muñoz, Olivia

doi:10.1002/ajpa.23307

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“…This intensified use of coastal areas perhaps reflects their greater ecological diversity and water availability (40,41). Omani coastal populations relied heavily on marine resources, as demonstrated at Ras al-Hamra (42,43) where bioarchaeological investigations revealed that the population was in poor overall health (44). On the island of Akab in the UAE, dugong bone mound (5.5 to 5.2 ka) excavations revealed that faunal remains were specially arranged, suggesting a monumental space (45), and perhaps the consequence of ritualized acts of consumption at a time of increased subsistence stress (21).…”

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Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia

Petraglia

Groucutt

Guagnin

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Recent interdisciplinary archaeological and paleoenvironmental research in the Arabian peninsula is transforming our understanding of ancient human societies in their ecological contexts. Hypotheses about the cultural and demographic impacts of a series of droughts have primarily been developed from the environmental and archaeological records of southeastern Arabia. Here we examine these human–environment interactions by integrating ongoing research from northern Arabia. While droughts and extreme environmental variability in the Holocene had significant impacts on human societies, responses varied across space and time and included mobility at various scales, as well as diverse social, economic and cultural adaptations, such as the management of water resources, the introduction of pastoral lifeways, and the construction of diverse types of stone structures. The long-term story of human societies in Arabia is one of resilience in the face of climate change, yet future challenges include rising temperatures and flash flooding. The history of human responses to climatic and ecosystem changes in Arabia can provide important lessons for a planet facing catastrophic global warming and environmental change.

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Section: Significancementioning

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Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia

Petraglia

Groucutt

Guagnin

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Many of the Neolithic sites lie at the mouth of wadi deltas or estuaries that supplied fresh water, and were therefore subject to rapid coastal sedimentation (Berger et al, ; Biagi & Nisbet, ; Woodroffe, ). As a consequence, their subsistence economy was often based, almost exclusively, on the exploitation of marine and mangrove swamp resources (Biagi & Nisbet, ; Munoz, ; Zazzo, Munoz, & Saliège, ; Zazzo et al, ). The Arabian Sea mangroves can be considered to have been highly productive on many levels for the prehistoric subsistence economies (Berger et al, ; Biagi & Nisbet, ; Tengberg, ).…”

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First contribution of the excavation and chronostratigraphic study of the Ruways 1 Neolithic shell midden (Oman) in terms of Neolithisation, palaeoeconomy, social‐environmental interactions and site formation processes

Berger

Guilbert-Berger

Marrast

et al. 2019

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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The NeoArabia project tries to understand how environmental, social, economic and technological factors work in concert to influence settlement and abandonment along a latitudinal transect of 1200 km from UAE to southern Oman. This region was affected by wide north-south variations in the Indo-Arabian monsoon, marine upwelling activity and eustatic variations in the Mid-Holocene. On the local settlement scale, this transect is based on fine stratigraphic excavations and permits the reconstruction of the site formation processes and site catchment analysis. A large number of studies have been conducted on the Ruways-1 site, focusing on a deep stratified sequence corresponding to three millennia of occupation. These studies include on-site climate-environmental signal analysis, local palaeogeography and environmental reconstruction, reservoir effect studies, typo-technological studies, palaeoeconomic strategies, anthropological studies, sclerochronological studies and, finally, site formation processes, the understanding of which makes it possible to explain the potential and limits of the archaeological excavation. The first results confirm the richness of these archaeological archives for documenting the socio-environmental dynamics, but also the richness of its complex sedimentary structure and the importance of conducting fine and multidisciplinary excavations to answer questions about the rhythms and functions of occupations and the causalities of socioenvironmental changes. K E Y W O R D S Coastal Neolithic, geoarcheology, shell midden, site catchment, site formation processes, Sultanate of Oman F I G U R E 8 (a) Map of the Ruways micro-region with the proposed Neolithic extension of a wide open lagoon with mangrove ecosystems (in purple) and the two khors situated on each side of the current village of Ruways, with the position of the four geological cores (yellow stars) and the RWY-1 site (orange area). (b) Electrical resistivity tomography section of the current sabkha located in the western part of the RWY-1 site, with the main superficial sedimentary formations and the location of core 4. (c) Lithological sequence of core 4 with the radiocarbon dating series on shells in BP and in cal. yr BC age [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]

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“…By the early Bronze Age (Hafit period; c .3100–2600 BC), zooarchaeological studies indicate that domesticated animals were a major part of subsistence strategies alongside the plant products of oasis agriculture, forming an integrated agro‐pastoral system in south‐eastern Arabia (al‐Jahwari, ; Munoz, ; Tengberg, ; Uerpmann M. & Uerpmann, ). The increasing prevalence of domestic animals is demonstrated by their dominance in the majority of assemblages dating to this period.…”

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The role of wild terrestrial animals in late prehistoric societies of south‐eastern Arabia: new insights from Saruq al‐Hadid

Roberts

Weeks

Cable

et al. 2018

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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The nature of the relationship between humans and wild terrestrial animals has been little discussed in Bronze Age and Iron Age south-eastern Arabia, largely due to a relative paucity of their remains in contemporary faunal assemblages. In this paper we present the results of analysis of animal bone recently excavated from Saruq al-Hadid, a late prehistoric (2200-800 BC) site located in the desert interior of the UAE. Wild terrestrial animals, particularly oryx (Oryx leucoryx) and gazelle (Gazella sp.), were the predominant taxa identified, suggesting longterm, frequent exploitation of these species. Here we use these remains to examine the implications of this wild animal exploitation for subsistence strategies and social formation at the site and in the region, alongside late prehistoric use of the desert zone and the complexities of the relationship between humans and wild animals that occur in this environment. A reassessment of the zooarchaeological evidence from south-eastern Arabia highlights the potential economic and social significance of wild animals to late prehistoric societies in the region, and the necessity to factor this importance into considerations of concurrent social developments. K E Y W O R D SBronze Age, Iron Age, Saruq al-Hadid, south-eastern Arabia, wild animals, zooarchaeology

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Transition to agriculture in South‐Eastern Arabia: Insights from oral conditions

Cited by 20 publications

References 35 publications

Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia

Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia

First contribution of the excavation and chronostratigraphic study of the Ruways 1 Neolithic shell midden (Oman) in terms of Neolithisation, palaeoeconomy, social‐environmental interactions and site formation processes

The role of wild terrestrial animals in late prehistoric societies of south‐eastern Arabia: new insights from Saruq al‐Hadid

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