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- Title
Neolithic pastoralism in marginal environments during the Holocene Humid Period, northern Saudi Arabia.
- Authors
Scerri, Eleanor M.L.; Guagnin, Maria; Groucutt, Huw S.; Armitage, Simon J.; Parker, Luke E.; Drake, Nick; Louys, Julien; Breeze, Paul S.; Zahir, Muhammad; Alsharekh, Abdullah; Petraglia, Michael D.
- Abstract
The origins of agriculture in South-west Asia is a topic of continued archaeological debate. Of particular interest is how agricultural populations and practices spread inter-regionally. Was the Arabian Neolithic, for example, spread through the movement of pastoral groups, or did ideas perhaps develop independently? Here, the authors report on recent excavations at Alshabah, one of the first Neolithic sites discovered in Northern Arabia. The site's material culture, environmental context and chronology provide evidence suggesting that well-adapted, seasonally mobile, pastoralist groups played a key role in the Neolithisation of the Arabian Peninsula.
- Subjects
ARABIAN Peninsula; MIDDLE East; PASTORAL societies; NEOLITHIC Period; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; MATERIAL culture; HOLOCENE Epoch
- Publication
Antiquity, 2018, Vol 92, Issue 365, p1180
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15184/aqy.2018.108