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  Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia

Shipton, C., Blinkhorn, J., Breeze, P. S., Cuthbertson, P., Drake, N., Groucutt, H. S., et al. (2018). Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia. PLoS One, 13(9): 0200497. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200497.

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Shipton, Ceri, Autor
Blinkhorn, James1, Autor           
Breeze, Paul S., Autor
Cuthbertson, Patrick, Autor
Drake, Nick, Autor
Groucutt, Huw S.1, Autor           
Jennings, Richard P., Autor
Parton, Ash, Autor
Scerri, Eleanor M. L.1, Autor           
Alsharekh, Abdullah, Autor
Petraglia, Michael D.1, Autor           
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1Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society, ou_2074312              

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 Zusammenfassung: Despite occupying a central geographic position, investigations of hominin populations in the Arabian Peninsula during the Lower Palaeolithic period are rare. The colonization of Eurasia below 55 degrees latitude indicates the success of the genus Homo in the Early and Middle Pleistocene, but the extent to which these hominins were capable of innovative and novel behavioural adaptations to engage with mid-latitude environments is unclear. Here we describe new field investigations at the Saffaqah locality (206–76) near Dawadmi, in central Arabia that aim to establish how hominins adapted to this region. The site is located in the interior of Arabia over 500 km from both the Red Sea and the Gulf, and at the headwaters of two major extinct river systems that were likely used by Acheulean hominins to cross the Peninsula. Saffaqah is one of the largest Acheulean sites in Arabia with nearly a million artefacts estimated to occur on the surface, and it is also the first to yield stratified deposits containing abundant artefacts. It is situated in the unusual setting of a dense and well-preserved landscape of Acheulean localities, with sites and isolated artefacts occurring regularly for tens of kilometres in every direction. We describe both previous and recent excavations at Saffaqah and its large lithic assemblage. We analyse thousands of artefacts from excavated and surface contexts, including giant andesite cores and flakes, smaller cores and retouched artefacts, as well as handaxes and cleavers. Technological assessment of stratified lithics and those from systematic survey, enable the reconstruction of stone tool life histories. The Acheulean hominins at Dawadmi were strong and skilful, with their adaptation evidently successful for some time. However, these biface-makers were also technologically conservative, and used least-effort strategies of resource procurement and tool transport. Ultimately, central Arabia was depopulated, likely in the face of environmental deterioration in the form of increasing aridity.

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Sprache(n): eng - English
 Datum: 2018-07-27
 Publikationsstatus: Online veröffentlicht
 Seiten: 36
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 Identifikatoren: DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200497
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Titel: PLoS One
Genre der Quelle: Zeitschrift
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Ort, Verlag, Ausgabe: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science
Seiten: - Band / Heft: 13 (9) Artikelnummer: 0200497 Start- / Endseite: - Identifikator: ISSN: 1932-6203
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/1000000000277850