Search Results - "Alsharekh, Abdullah"
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Plant, pigment, and bone processing in the Neolithic of northern Arabia–New evidence from Use-wear analysis of grinding tools at Jebel Oraf
Published in PloS one (04-10-2023)“…Archaeological sites with surface hearths are a ubiquitous feature across the arid zones of the Arabian interior. At Jebel Oraf, in the Jubbah basin of the…”
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Landscape positioning of Neolithic mustatil stone structures along the margins of the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia
Published in Holocene (Sevenoaks) (01-12-2024)“…Monumental rectangular stone structures called mustatils are an important emerging feature of the Holocene archaeological record of northwestern Arabia. To…”
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Humid phases on the southwestern Arabian Peninsula are consistent with the last two interglacials
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-11-2023)“…Past environmental and climatic conditions within the Arabian Peninsula are key to understanding the setting for hominin dispersal across the Saharo-Arabian…”
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Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years
Published in Nature (London) (16-09-2021)“…Pleistocene hominin dispersals out of, and back into, Africa necessarily involved traversing the diverse and often challenging environments of Southwest Asia 1…”
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Hydroclimatic and geochemical palaeoenvironmental records within tufa: A cool-water fluvio-lacustrine tufa system in the Wadi Dabsa volcanic setting, western Saudi Arabia
Published in Sedimentary geology (15-07-2022)“…A series of uncharacterised tufa deposits within the lowland volcanic provinces of western Saudi Arabia are investigated here in order account for their…”
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First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia
Published in PloS one (17-04-2024)“…Recent advances in interdisciplinary archaeological research in Arabia have focused on the evolution and historical development of regional human populations…”
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Monumental landscapes of the Holocene humid period in Northern Arabia: The mustatil phenomenon
Published in Holocene (Sevenoaks) (01-12-2020)“…Between 10 and six thousand years ago the Arabian Peninsula saw the most recent of the ‘Green Arabia’ periods, when increased rainfall transformed this…”
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The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia
Published in Scientific reports (12-05-2021)“…The Arabian Peninsula is a critical geographic landmass situated between Africa and the rest of Eurasia. Climatic shifts across the Pleistocene periodically…”
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Preservation of plant‐wax biomarkers in deserts: implications for Quaternary environment and human evolutionary studies
Published in Journal of quaternary science (01-04-2024)“…ABSTRACT Analysis of plant‐wax biomarkers from sedimentary sequences can enable past environmental and hydrological reconstruction and provide insights into…”
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Middle Paleolithic occupation on a Marine Isotope Stage 5 lakeshore in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-06-2011)“…Major hydrological variations associated with glacial and interglacial climates in North Africa and the Levant have been related to Middle Paleolithic…”
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The expansion of later Acheulean hominins into the Arabian Peninsula
Published in Scientific reports (29-11-2018)“…The Acheulean is the longest lasting cultural–technological tradition in human evolutionary history. However, considerable gaps remain in understanding the…”
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Traceological analysis of lithics from the Camel Site, al-Jawf, Saudi Arabia: an experimental approach to identifying mineral processing activities using silcrete tools
Published in Archaeological and anthropological sciences (01-05-2022)“…The Camel Site is in the north of Saudi Arabia in the province of al-Jawf. It is characterised by three decaying sandstone hillocks with life-sized 3D…”
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Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia
Published in PloS one (27-07-2018)“…Despite occupying a central geographic position, investigations of hominin populations in the Arabian Peninsula during the Lower Palaeolithic period are rare…”
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Hominin dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle palaeolithic settlement along the Jubbah Palaeolake, Northern Arabia
Published in PloS one (19-11-2012)“…The Arabian Peninsula is a key region for understanding hominin dispersals and the effect of climate change on prehistoric demography, although little…”
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Middle palaeolithic and neolithic occupations around Mundafan Palaeolake, Saudi Arabia: implications for climate change and human dispersals
Published in PloS one (24-07-2013)“…The Arabian Peninsula is a key region for understanding climate change and human occupation history in a marginal environment. The Mundafan palaeolake is…”
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Author Correction: Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years
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Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago
Published in Nature ecology & evolution (01-05-2018)“…Understanding the timing and character of the expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa is critical for inferring the colonization and admixture processes that…”
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Epipalaeolithic occupation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia, during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene
Published in Journal of archaeological science (01-10-2014)“…The transition from the Terminal Pleistocene to the Early Holocene is poorly represented in the geological and archaeological records of northern Arabia, and…”
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Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior
Published in Science advances (01-09-2020)“…The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of…”
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Beyond the Levant: first evidence of a pre-pottery Neolithic incursion into the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia
Published in PloS one (19-07-2013)“…Pre-Pottery Neolithic assemblages are best known from the fertile areas of the Mediterranean Levant. The archaeological site of Jebel Qattar 101 (JQ-101), at…”
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