Stone Tools of Prehistoric Arabia: Papers from the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 21 July 2019
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 50 2020
Edited by K. Bretzke Edited by R. Crassard Edited by Yamandú H. Hilbert
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(December 2020)
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This volume presents the proceedings from the special one-day session on the stone tools of prehistoric Arabia, held during the Seminar for Arabian Studies (Leiden 2019).
During the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in Leiden (July 2019), a special one-day session on the stone tools of prehistoric Arabia was held. Stone tools are generally associated with the oldest archaeological periods of human existence, the Palaeolithic, and are the most lasting vestiges of our ancestors’ productive activities. In Arabia, stone tools (or lithics) are found on the deflated surfaces close to raw material outcrops, high on the top of mountains and deep within valleys and terraces, on lake relics at the heart of the many sand seas, and even under water. For a long time, however, stratified archaeological records were rare and developing chronological frameworks was therefore a challenge. The discoveries made by international archaeological projects conducted across Arabia in recent years have made vital contributions to the field; the archaeological investigation of human origins in the Arabian Peninsula and a better understanding of cultural diversification throughout prehistory are good examples. The interpretation of the new finds provides alternative scenarios for how prehistoric human populations interacted with the diverse landscapes of Arabia, suggesting the Peninsula was not merely a crossroads or superhighway of expansion for anatomically modern humans but also functioned as a human habitat throughout the Pleistocene. The present Supplement to Volume 50 of the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies addresses these and many particularly emerging interests on the deep past of the Arabian Peninsula.
Editors’ Foreword ;
New Palaeolithic sites around Al-Badʾ, north-western Saudi Arabia (Rémy Crassard, Yamandú H. Hilbert, Guillaume Charloux , Samer A. Sahlah & Waleed A. Badaiwi) ;
The Palaeolithic record from the Central Region of the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (Knut Bretzke) ;
Middle and Late Pleistocene lithic technology from the region of Dûmat al-Jandal, northern Saudi Arabia (Yamandú H. Hilbert & Rémy Crassard) ;
Lower and Middle Paleolithic Sites from the Rufa Graben central Saudi Arabia (Rémy Crassard & Yamandú H. Hilbert) ;
The net of Nubian core and foldability: an attempt to individualize the lithic technology in the Palaeolithic (Amir Beshkani)
Living and moving in Maitan: Neolithic settlements and regional exchanges in the southern Rub’ al-Khali (Sultanate of Oman) (Maria Pia Maiorano, Mohammed Al Kindi, Vincent Charpentier, Jérémie Vosges, Dominique Gommery, Grégor Marchand, Ahmed Qatan, Federico Borgi & Martin Pickford) ;
Lithics of a cache-like feature at the high-elevation polje Hayl Al-Ajah inside the Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar of northern Oman (Inna Mateiciucová, Maximilian Wilding, Denis Štefanisko & Gerhard Trnka) ;
Some remarks on the lithic assemblage from a coastal Ubaid-related settlement site on Delma Island, Abu Dhabi emirate, United Arab Emirates (Heiko Kallweit & Mark Jonathan Beech) ;
The chipped stone assemblage from Hili 8 — Early Bronze Age innovation vs. Neolithic tradition (Norbert Buchinger, Marc Händel, Peter Magee, Ali Al Meqbali & Abdulla Al Kaabi) ;
Bronze Age microliths at Saruq al-Hadid, Dubai (Mark W. Moore, Lloyd Weeks, Charlotte M. Cable, Yaaqoub Youssef Al-Ali, Mansour Boraik & Hassan Zein) [Open Access: Download]
A Hafit-period stone tool assemblage from Al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman (Ullrich Ochs) ;
The lithic industry from the Iron Age coastal settlement HAS1 (Inqitat), southern Oman (Yamandú H. Hilbert & Silvia Lischi)
- Edited by K. Bretzke
- Edited by R. Crassard
- Edited by Yamandú H. Hilbert
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Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 48 2018
Papers from the fifty-first meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 4th to 6th August 2017
Nabataeans in Focus: Current Archaeological Research at Petra
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 42 2012
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 53 2024
Papers from the fifty-sixth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in Aarhus 4–6 August 2023
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 54 2025
Papers from the fifty-seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 27–29 June 2024
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 51 2022
Papers from the fifty-fourth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held virtually on 2–4 and 9–11 July 2021
Development of Arabic as a Written Language
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 40 2010
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 52 2023
Papers from the fifty-fifth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at Humboldt Universität, Berlin, 5–7 August 2022
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 46, 2016
Papers from the forty-seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 24 to 26 July 2015
Revealing Cultural Landscapes in North-West Arabia
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies volume 51
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 43 2013
Papers from the forty-sixth meeting, London, 13–15 July 2012
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 49 2019
Papers from the fifty-second meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 3 to 5 August 2018
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 44 2014
Papers from the forty-seventh meeting, London, 26–28 July 2013
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 50 2020
Papers from the fifty-third meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the University of Leiden from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th July 2019
Languages of Southern Arabia
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 44 2014
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