Y H Hilbert
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 51008 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Y H Hilbert |
| NOMBRES | Y H |
| APELLIDO | Hilbert |
| FIRMA | HILBERT Y H |
| AFILIACIONES | Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5469-2933 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 205 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Nubian Cores along the Coast of the Central Levantine Corridor
Nubian Levallois technology constitutes a specific variation of the Levallois point production method, its most distinctive feature being the use of the distal platform to create and maintain the medial distal ridge of the core. The geographical spread and chronological range of this technology remain highly contested. Save for the sites addressed in this article, Middle Palaeolithic sites with Nubian technology are found in desert environments. …
Tracing prehistoric pastoral occupation in Dhofar
New multidisciplinary data on Middle Holocene pastoralism in Dhofar, Oman. • Radiocarbon modelling shows site use from ∼ 4950 to 1000 BCE. • Well-preserved faunal assemblage reveals cattle and caprine exploitation. • Evidence for on-site butchery, marrow extraction, and meat processing. • Peak occupation intensity identified between ∼ 4200–2450 BCE. The prehistoric occupation of Dhofar, Southern Oman, was facilitated by the Indian Summer Monsoon,…
New perspectives on lithic technology and subsistence strategies at the middle palaeolithic site of Ras el-Kelb, Lebanon
The Middle Palaeolithic of the Central Levant remains a topic of ongoing debates concerning cultural variability, technological traditions, and hominin occupations. One crucial site that adds to the discussion is Ras el-Kelb, a geographically strategic site located between the Lebanese coastal cliffs and the historic Nahr el-Kelb valley. While the site was excavated in the 1950s by Dorothy Garrod and Germaine Henri-Martin, it remains understudied…
Early Arabian Neolithic agropastoral communities from Asifir, Northwestern Saudi Arabia
Discovered during the survey of ancient Madyan, in the modern Al-Bad' oasis in north-western Saudi Arabia, the site of Asifir is distinguished by numerous surface concentrations of Neolithic artefacts. Low sediment mounds identified at the site indicated the possible preservation of in situ archaeological remains; one such mound was excavated in November 2019. Dated to the Early Arabian Neolithic period, Asifir is an open-air site located at the …
Evidence of Middle Palaeolithic human occupation in south-central Oman
Debate surrounds the early peopling of the Arabian Peninsula. The first evidence of the Levallois lithic technology in the Huqf area of south-eastern Arabia now extends the Middle Palaeolithic record of hominin activity into central Oman and helps to diversify the picture of Arabian prehistory
An Early Bronze Age stone tool assemblage from al-Badʿ Oasis in northern Arabia
Archaeological research on the 4th millennium BCE throughout the Levant has shown how craft specialization, extended trade and supply routes, as well as increased social stratification, established the foundation for the urban Early Bronze Age formation process in the third quarter of the 4th millennium BCE. The specific context of northern Arabia, along the fringes of the fertile crescent, remains, on the contrary, largely unexplored. In this pa…
Mid Holocene human adaptation at the Ras al Jinz 3 site
The south-eastern Arabian coastline, with its diverse habitats and high levels of bio productivity, is characterised by an abundance of archaeological sites spanning from the Neolithic to the Islamic periods. Since the Early Holocene, populations of hunters, fishers, herders, and gatherers developed cultural and behavioural knowledge that allowed them to flourish and endure the climatic fluctuations affecting the region. Here we present the resul…
Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites
Open-air accumulations of chipped stone debris are a common feature in arid landscapes, yet despite their prevalence, such archives are often dismissed as uninformative or unreliable. In the canyonlands of Dhofar, southern Oman, lithic surface scatters are nearly ubiquitous, including extensive, multi-component workshops associated with chert outcrops. These sites typically display chronologically diagnostic features that correspond to distinct t…
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Southern Oman from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Neolithic
Ongoing archaeological investigations in the Dhufār region of southern Oman have mapped some 800 lithic findspots distributed across the Dhufār Mountains, Nejd Plateau, and the southern Rub' al Khali Desert. These include extensive lithic workshops, specialized activity sites, as well as isolated armatures and cores. The array of lithic reduction strategies represents successive stages of technological evolution from the Pleistocene to the Holoce…
From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers
Archaeological investigations of the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene human occupation of the nearly 3 million square kilometres that make up the vast and diverse landscapes of the Arabian Peninsula are hampered by a series of shortcomings. Some of the problems when trying to reconstruct human occupation and behaviour based on material culture are imposed by the state of preservation of archaeological finds. The shift from dry to wet and b…
Traceological analysis of lithics from the Camel Site, al-Jawf, Saudi Arabia
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 engravings (or reliefs) of camels and equids likely carved during later prehistory. A survey in the central area of the site identified clusters of flakes and other flintknapping remains in the lower areas between the sandstone spurs and larger silcrete tools directly underneath the animal depictio…
The nature of Nubian
Not Just a Corridor
Life-sized Neolithic camel sculptures in Arabia
Year-Old Geometric Microliths Reveal Glacial Refugium in Dhofar, Southern Oman
Bidirectional blade technology on naviform cores from northern Arabia
Discovered in March 2015, the sites of DAJ‐112 and DAJ‐125 in the Al‐Jawf province of northern Saudi Arabia consist of a large collection of surface lithic artefacts that can be compared to well‐known Pre‐Pottery Neolithic (PPN) B technology from the Levant: the two sites include bidirectional blade technology with naviform core preparation and opposed platforms surface exploitation, as well as burin production at a wide scale. Other surface scat…
Jebel Kareem (TH.68)
The lithic sample from TH.68 in Southern Oman is characterised by a set of techno‐typological features: (a) the variety of blank production strategies employed to produce flakes, blades and bladelets; (b) the level of standardisation of tools, including backed bladelets, end scrapers, burins on truncation, unifacial and bifacial plano‐convex points, etc.; and (c) a previously unknown technique that produced specific flakes presenting uniform morp…
Middle Palaeolithic occupations in central Saudi Arabia during MIS 5 and MIS 7
Woodworking sites from the Late Paleolithic of South Arabia
Technological homogeneity within the Arabian Nubian Complex
Nubian Levallois technology is the defining characteristic of the Middle Paleolithic or Middle Stone Age technocomplex known as the Nubian Complex. Until recently, this technocomplex was found exclusively in northeastern Africa; however, archaeological surveys conducted across the Arabian Peninsula in the last decade have expanded the known distribution of this technological phenomenon. Since 2009, researchers from separate archaeological mission…
Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeology and stratigraphy of the southern Nejd, Oman
Nubian technology in northern Arabia
Archaeological evidence for indigenous human occupation of Southern Arabia at the Pleistocene/ Holocene transition
The Neolithic peopling of Arabia is a subject of increasing debate, as different scenarios are proposed to describe the relatively sudden appearance of seemingly homogeneous archaeological sites throughout the south of the Peninsula during the Early Holocene. Such sites are identified by the co-occurrence of a laminar core reduction strategy with its supposed fossile directeur, the “ Fasad point.” This techno-typological package has been used by …
Khashabian
The author has undertaken a technological and typological analysis of lithic assemblages from southern Oman dating between 10,000 to 7,000 years before present (BP). These assemblages are characterized by the production of blades (leptoliths) using varied core reduction modalities exemplified throughout the book. These blade technologies are accompanied by formal tools such as tanged projectiles, burins, endscrapers and pseude-backed knifes. The …
Epipalaeolithic occupation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia, during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene
Author: Hilbert, Yamandu H. et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2014-10; Title: Epipalaeolithic occupation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia, during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene
Nubian Complex reduction strategies in Dhofar, southern Oman
Between 2010 and 2012, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has located and mapped 260 Nubian Complex occurrences across Dhofar, southern Oman. Many of these lithic assemblages are technologically homologous to the Late Nubian Industry found in Africa, while others may represent a local industry derived from classic Nubian Levallois technology. The purpose of this paper is to describe the various reduction strategies encountered at a sample of Nubia…
Epipalaeolithic occupation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia, during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene
Author: Hilbert, Yamandu H. et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2014-10; Title: Epipalaeolithic occupation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia, during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene
Middle Palaeolithic occupations in central Saudi Arabia during MIS 5 and MIS 7
Nubian technology in northern Arabia
The nature of Nubian
Bidirectional blade technology on naviform cores from northern Arabia
Discovered in March 2015, the sites of DAJ‐112 and DAJ‐125 in the Al‐Jawf province of northern Saudi Arabia consist of a large collection of surface lithic artefacts that can be compared to well‐known Pre‐Pottery Neolithic (PPN) B technology from the Levant: the two sites include bidirectional blade technology with naviform core preparation and opposed platforms surface exploitation, as well as burin production at a wide scale. Other surface scat…
Archaeological evidence for indigenous human occupation of Southern Arabia at the Pleistocene/ Holocene transition
The Neolithic peopling of Arabia is a subject of increasing debate, as different scenarios are proposed to describe the relatively sudden appearance of seemingly homogeneous archaeological sites throughout the south of the Peninsula during the Early Holocene. Such sites are identified by the co-occurrence of a laminar core reduction strategy with its supposed fossile directeur, the “ Fasad point.” This techno-typological package has been used by …
Khamseen rock shelter and the Late Palaeolithic‐Neolithic transition in Dhofar
This paper presents the archaeological site of Khamseen rock shelter, its stratigraphic succession, numeric ages and Early–Middle Holocene lithic assemblages. The site was discovered and excavated during the 2010 fieldwork campaign of the Dhofar Archaeological Project ( DAP ) in southern Oman. It is situated at the southern edge of the Nejd Plateau, strategically positioned adjacent to a major orographic barrier at the interface of the plateau an…
Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites
Open-air accumulations of chipped stone debris are a common feature in arid landscapes, yet despite their prevalence, such archives are often dismissed as uninformative or unreliable. In the canyonlands of Dhofar, southern Oman, lithic surface scatters are nearly ubiquitous, including extensive, multi-component workshops associated with chert outcrops. These sites typically display chronologically diagnostic features that correspond to distinct t…
Technological homogeneity within the Arabian Nubian Complex
Nubian Levallois technology is the defining characteristic of the Middle Paleolithic or Middle Stone Age technocomplex known as the Nubian Complex. Until recently, this technocomplex was found exclusively in northeastern Africa; however, archaeological surveys conducted across the Arabian Peninsula in the last decade have expanded the known distribution of this technological phenomenon. Since 2009, researchers from separate archaeological mission…
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Southern Oman from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Neolithic
Ongoing archaeological investigations in the Dhufār region of southern Oman have mapped some 800 lithic findspots distributed across the Dhufār Mountains, Nejd Plateau, and the southern Rub' al Khali Desert. These include extensive lithic workshops, specialized activity sites, as well as isolated armatures and cores. The array of lithic reduction strategies represents successive stages of technological evolution from the Pleistocene to the Holoce…
Woodworking sites from the Late Paleolithic of South Arabia
Life-sized Neolithic camel sculptures in Arabia
Early Arabian Neolithic agropastoral communities from Asifir, Northwestern Saudi Arabia
Discovered during the survey of ancient Madyan, in the modern Al-Bad' oasis in north-western Saudi Arabia, the site of Asifir is distinguished by numerous surface concentrations of Neolithic artefacts. Low sediment mounds identified at the site indicated the possible preservation of in situ archaeological remains; one such mound was excavated in November 2019. Dated to the Early Arabian Neolithic period, Asifir is an open-air site located at the …
From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers
Archaeological investigations of the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene human occupation of the nearly 3 million square kilometres that make up the vast and diverse landscapes of the Arabian Peninsula are hampered by a series of shortcomings. Some of the problems when trying to reconstruct human occupation and behaviour based on material culture are imposed by the state of preservation of archaeological finds. The shift from dry to wet and b…
Jebel Kareem (TH.68)
The lithic sample from TH.68 in Southern Oman is characterised by a set of techno‐typological features: (a) the variety of blank production strategies employed to produce flakes, blades and bladelets; (b) the level of standardisation of tools, including backed bladelets, end scrapers, burins on truncation, unifacial and bifacial plano‐convex points, etc.; and (c) a previously unknown technique that produced specific flakes presenting uniform morp…
Traceological analysis of lithics from the Camel Site, al-Jawf, Saudi Arabia
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 engravings (or reliefs) of camels and equids likely carved during later prehistory. A survey in the central area of the site identified clusters of flakes and other flintknapping remains in the lower areas between the sandstone spurs and larger silcrete tools directly underneath the animal depictio…
Lithic technology and spatial distribution of artefacts at the Early Bronze Age site HD‐6 (Sharqiyya Region, Sultanate of Oman)
The Early Bronze Age site HD‐6, located close to the coastal village of Ra’s al‐Hadd on the eastern Omani coast, has been the focus of archaeological investigations for over fifteen years. This paper presents a description and definition of its lithic assemblage by means of technological analyses of both blank production sequences and retouched tools. A sample of lithic artefacts recovered from the excavated buildings is analysed for this study. …
Lithic technology and spatial distribution of artefacts at the Early Bronze Age site HD‐6 (Sharqiyya Region, Sultanate of Oman)
The Early Bronze Age site HD‐6, located close to the coastal village of Ra’s al‐Hadd on the eastern Omani coast, has been the focus of archaeological investigations for over fifteen years. This paper presents a description and definition of its lithic assemblage by means of technological analyses of both blank production sequences and retouched tools. A sample of lithic artefacts recovered from the excavated buildings is analysed for this study. …
Nubian Complex reduction strategies in Dhofar, southern Oman
Between 2010 and 2012, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has located and mapped 260 Nubian Complex occurrences across Dhofar, southern Oman. Many of these lithic assemblages are technologically homologous to the Late Nubian Industry found in Africa, while others may represent a local industry derived from classic Nubian Levallois technology. The purpose of this paper is to describe the various reduction strategies encountered at a sample of Nubia…
Khamseen rock shelter and the Late Palaeolithic‐Neolithic transition in Dhofar
This paper presents the archaeological site of Khamseen rock shelter, its stratigraphic succession, numeric ages and Early–Middle Holocene lithic assemblages. The site was discovered and excavated during the 2010 fieldwork campaign of the Dhofar Archaeological Project ( DAP ) in southern Oman. It is situated at the southern edge of the Nejd Plateau, strategically positioned adjacent to a major orographic barrier at the interface of the plateau an…
Khashabian
The author has undertaken a technological and typological analysis of lithic assemblages from southern Oman dating between 10,000 to 7,000 years before present (BP). These assemblages are characterized by the production of blades (leptoliths) using varied core reduction modalities exemplified throughout the book. These blade technologies are accompanied by formal tools such as tanged projectiles, burins, endscrapers and pseude-backed knifes. The …
Epipalaeolithic occupation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia, during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene
Author: Hilbert, Yamandu H. et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2014-10; Title: Epipalaeolithic occupation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia, during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene
Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeology and stratigraphy of the southern Nejd, Oman
Nubian technology in northern Arabia
Archaeological evidence for indigenous human occupation of Southern Arabia at the Pleistocene/ Holocene transition
The Neolithic peopling of Arabia is a subject of increasing debate, as different scenarios are proposed to describe the relatively sudden appearance of seemingly homogeneous archaeological sites throughout the south of the Peninsula during the Early Holocene. Such sites are identified by the co-occurrence of a laminar core reduction strategy with its supposed fossile directeur, the “ Fasad point.” This techno-typological package has been used by …
Technological homogeneity within the Arabian Nubian Complex
Nubian Levallois technology is the defining characteristic of the Middle Paleolithic or Middle Stone Age technocomplex known as the Nubian Complex. Until recently, this technocomplex was found exclusively in northeastern Africa; however, archaeological surveys conducted across the Arabian Peninsula in the last decade have expanded the known distribution of this technological phenomenon. Since 2009, researchers from separate archaeological mission…
Woodworking sites from the Late Paleolithic of South Arabia
Year-Old Geometric Microliths Reveal Glacial Refugium in Dhofar, Southern Oman
Bidirectional blade technology on naviform cores from northern Arabia
Discovered in March 2015, the sites of DAJ‐112 and DAJ‐125 in the Al‐Jawf province of northern Saudi Arabia consist of a large collection of surface lithic artefacts that can be compared to well‐known Pre‐Pottery Neolithic (PPN) B technology from the Levant: the two sites include bidirectional blade technology with naviform core preparation and opposed platforms surface exploitation, as well as burin production at a wide scale. Other surface scat…
Jebel Kareem (TH.68)
The lithic sample from TH.68 in Southern Oman is characterised by a set of techno‐typological features: (a) the variety of blank production strategies employed to produce flakes, blades and bladelets; (b) the level of standardisation of tools, including backed bladelets, end scrapers, burins on truncation, unifacial and bifacial plano‐convex points, etc.; and (c) a previously unknown technique that produced specific flakes presenting uniform morp…
Middle Palaeolithic occupations in central Saudi Arabia during MIS 5 and MIS 7
Not Just a Corridor
Life-sized Neolithic camel sculptures in Arabia
Traceological analysis of lithics from the Camel Site, al-Jawf, Saudi Arabia
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 engravings (or reliefs) of camels and equids likely carved during later prehistory. A survey in the central area of the site identified clusters of flakes and other flintknapping remains in the lower areas between the sandstone spurs and larger silcrete tools directly underneath the animal depictio…
The nature of Nubian
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Southern Oman from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Neolithic
Ongoing archaeological investigations in the Dhufār region of southern Oman have mapped some 800 lithic findspots distributed across the Dhufār Mountains, Nejd Plateau, and the southern Rub' al Khali Desert. These include extensive lithic workshops, specialized activity sites, as well as isolated armatures and cores. The array of lithic reduction strategies represents successive stages of technological evolution from the Pleistocene to the Holoce…
From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers
Archaeological investigations of the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene human occupation of the nearly 3 million square kilometres that make up the vast and diverse landscapes of the Arabian Peninsula are hampered by a series of shortcomings. Some of the problems when trying to reconstruct human occupation and behaviour based on material culture are imposed by the state of preservation of archaeological finds. The shift from dry to wet and b…
An Early Bronze Age stone tool assemblage from al-Badʿ Oasis in northern Arabia
Archaeological research on the 4th millennium BCE throughout the Levant has shown how craft specialization, extended trade and supply routes, as well as increased social stratification, established the foundation for the urban Early Bronze Age formation process in the third quarter of the 4th millennium BCE. The specific context of northern Arabia, along the fringes of the fertile crescent, remains, on the contrary, largely unexplored. In this pa…
Mid Holocene human adaptation at the Ras al Jinz 3 site
The south-eastern Arabian coastline, with its diverse habitats and high levels of bio productivity, is characterised by an abundance of archaeological sites spanning from the Neolithic to the Islamic periods. Since the Early Holocene, populations of hunters, fishers, herders, and gatherers developed cultural and behavioural knowledge that allowed them to flourish and endure the climatic fluctuations affecting the region. Here we present the resul…
Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites
Open-air accumulations of chipped stone debris are a common feature in arid landscapes, yet despite their prevalence, such archives are often dismissed as uninformative or unreliable. In the canyonlands of Dhofar, southern Oman, lithic surface scatters are nearly ubiquitous, including extensive, multi-component workshops associated with chert outcrops. These sites typically display chronologically diagnostic features that correspond to distinct t…
Early Arabian Neolithic agropastoral communities from Asifir, Northwestern Saudi Arabia
Discovered during the survey of ancient Madyan, in the modern Al-Bad' oasis in north-western Saudi Arabia, the site of Asifir is distinguished by numerous surface concentrations of Neolithic artefacts. Low sediment mounds identified at the site indicated the possible preservation of in situ archaeological remains; one such mound was excavated in November 2019. Dated to the Early Arabian Neolithic period, Asifir is an open-air site located at the …
Evidence of Middle Palaeolithic human occupation in south-central Oman
Debate surrounds the early peopling of the Arabian Peninsula. The first evidence of the Levallois lithic technology in the Huqf area of south-eastern Arabia now extends the Middle Palaeolithic record of hominin activity into central Oman and helps to diversify the picture of Arabian prehistory
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