The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African middle stone age industry in Southern Arabia.

Despite 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 industry, which would indicate demographic exchange across the Red Sea. Here we re...

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Autores principales:	Jeffrey I Rose, Vitaly I Usik, Anthony E Marks, Yamandu H Hilbert, Christopher S Galletti, Ash Parton, Jean Marie Geiling, Viktor Cerný, Mike W Morley, Richard G Roberts
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0d95b7795b234d7299074dd3d1d031172021-11-18T07:33:20ZThe Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African middle stone age industry in Southern Arabia.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0028239https://doaj.org/article/0d95b7795b234d7299074dd3d1d031172011-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22140561/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Despite 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 industry, 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 belonging 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 Al 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.Jeffrey I RoseVitaly I UsikAnthony E MarksYamandu H HilbertChristopher S GallettiAsh PartonJean Marie GeilingViktor CernýMike W MorleyRichard G RobertsPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 6, Iss 11, p e28239 (2011)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Jeffrey I Rose Vitaly I Usik Anthony E Marks Yamandu H Hilbert Christopher S Galletti Ash Parton Jean Marie Geiling Viktor Cerný Mike W Morley Richard G Roberts The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African middle stone age industry in Southern Arabia.
description	Despite 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 industry, 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 belonging 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 Al 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.
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author	Jeffrey I Rose Vitaly I Usik Anthony E Marks Yamandu H Hilbert Christopher S Galletti Ash Parton Jean Marie Geiling Viktor Cerný Mike W Morley Richard G Roberts
author_facet	Jeffrey I Rose Vitaly I Usik Anthony E Marks Yamandu H Hilbert Christopher S Galletti Ash Parton Jean Marie Geiling Viktor Cerný Mike W Morley Richard G Roberts
author_sort	Jeffrey I Rose
title	The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African middle stone age industry in Southern Arabia.
title_short	The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African middle stone age industry in Southern Arabia.
title_full	The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African middle stone age industry in Southern Arabia.
title_fullStr	The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African middle stone age industry in Southern Arabia.
title_full_unstemmed	The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African middle stone age industry in Southern Arabia.
title_sort	nubian complex of dhofar, oman: an african middle stone age industry in southern arabia.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2011
url	https://doaj.org/article/0d95b7795b234d7299074dd3d1d03117
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The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African middle stone age industry in Southern Arabia.

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