DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.020
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84929410743
论文题名: Human occupation of the Arabian Empty Quarter during MIS 5: Evidence from Mundafan Al-Buhayrah, Saudi Arabia
作者: Groucutt H.S. ; White T.S. ; Clark-Balzan L. ; Parton A. ; Crassard R. ; Shipton C. ; Jennings R.P. ; Parker A.G. ; Breeze P.S. ; Scerri E.M.L. ; Alsharekh A. ; Petraglia M.D.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2015
卷: 119 起始页码: 116
结束页码: 135
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Arabia
; Empty Quarter
; Middle Palaeolithic
; MIS 5
; Pleistocene
Scopus关键词: Biodiversity
; Employment
; Environmental technology
; Isotopes
; Arabia
; Archaeological materials
; Empty Quarter
; Environmental conditions
; Marine isotope stages
; Middle Palaeolithic
; Pleistocene
; Radiometric techniques
; Aluminum
; archaeology
; data set
; demography
; desert
; dispersal
; environmental conditions
; fossil record
; Holocene
; invertebrate
; paleoenvironment
; Paleolithic
; paleontology
; vertebrate
; Africa
; Arabian Peninsula
; Homo sapiens
; Invertebrata
; Mollusca
; Ostracoda
; Vertebrata
英文摘要: The Empty Quarter (or Rub' al Khali) of the Arabian Peninsula is the largest continuous sandy desert in the world. It has been known for several decades that Late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits, representing phases of wetter climate, are preserved there. These sequences have yielded palaeontological evidence in the form of a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate fossils and have been dated using various radiometric techniques. However, evidence for human presence during these wetter phases has until now been ephemeral. Here, we report on the first stratified and dated archaeology from the Empty Quarter, recovered from the site of Mundafan Al-Buhayrah (MDF-61). Human occupation at the site, represented by stone tools, has been dated to the later part of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 using multiple luminescence dating techniques (multigrain and single grain OSL, TT-OSL). The sequence consists primarily of lacustrine and palustrine sediments, from which evidence for changing local environmental conditions has been obtained through analysis of fossil assemblages (phytoliths and non-marine molluscs and ostracods). The discovery of securely-dated archaeological material at 100 to 80ka in the Empty Quarter has important implications for hypotheses concerning the timing and routes of dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa, which have been much debated. Consequently, the data presented here fill a crucial gap in palaeoenvironmental and archaeological understanding of the southern Arabian interior. Fossils of H. sapiens in the Levant, also dated to MIS 5, together with Middle Palaeolithic archaeological sites in Arabia and India are thought to represent the earliest dispersal of our species out of Africa. We suggest that the widespread occurrence of similar lithic technologies across southern Asia, coupled with a growing body of evidence for environmental amelioration across the Saharo-Arabian belt, indicates that occupation of the Levant by H. sapiens during MIS 5 may not have been a brief, localized 'failed dispersal', but part of a wider demographic expansion. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59918
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作者单位: Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, New Barnett House, 28 Little Clarendon Street, Oxford, United Kingdom; CNRS, UMR 5133 'Archéorient', Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 7 rue Raulin, Lyon, France; School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gibbs Building, Gipsy Lane, Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Geography, King's College London, Strand, London, United Kingdom; PACEA, Universite Bordeaux 1, Batiment B19, Avenue des Facultes, Talence Cedex, France; Department of Archaeology, College of Tourism and Archaeology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Recommended Citation:
Groucutt H.S.,White T.S.,Clark-Balzan L.,et al. Human occupation of the Arabian Empty Quarter during MIS 5: Evidence from Mundafan Al-Buhayrah, Saudi Arabia[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2015-01-01,119