The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia
Contenu
- Titre
- The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia
- Auteur
- Rose, Jeffrey I.
- Usik, Vitaly I.
- Marks, Anthony E.
- Hilbert, Yamandu H.
- Galletti, Christopher S.
- Parton, Ash
- Geiling, Jean Marie
- Černý, Viktor
- Morley, Mike W.
- Roberts, Richard G.
- Date
- 2011
- Dans
- PLoS ONE
- Résumé
- Despit e the numerous studies proposing early human population expansions from Africa into Arabia during the Late Pleistocene, no archaeological sites have yet been discovered in Arabia that resemble a specific African industly. which would indicate demographic exchange across the Red Sea. Here we report the discovery of a buried site and more than 100 new surface scatters in the Dhofar region of Oman belo ng ing to a regionally-specific African lithic industry- the late Nubian Complex - known previously only from the northeast and Horn of Africa during Marine Isotope Stage 5, - 128,000 to 74,000 years ago. Two optically stimulated luminescence age estimates from the open-air site of Aybut AI Auwal in Oman place the Arabian Nubian Complex at - 106,000 years ago, providing archaeological evidence for the presence of a distinct northeast African Middle Stone Age technocomplex in southern Arabia sometime in the first half of Marine Isotope Stage 5.
- Sujet
- Dhofar
- Langue
- eng
- rédacteur
- Petraglia, Michael D.
- volume
- 6
- numéro
- 11
- pages
- e28239
- doi
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0028239
- issn
- 1932-6203
- Titre abrégé
- The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman
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