Ahmed Nassr
Biographic Data
| ID | 627989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahmed Nassr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahmed |
| FAMILY NAME | Nassr |
| SIGNATURE | NASSR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ha'il |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2553-1783 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Evaluating Public Awareness of Prehistoric Heritage in Ha’il, Northern Saudi Arabia, and Identifying Opportunities for Improving Social Participation
Prehistoric archaeological research in the region of Ha’il, northern Saudi Arabia has produced discoveries central to understanding Arabian heritage. Yet, despite extensive site documentation, little is known about local community awareness of prehistoric heritage or its social value. Aligned with Saudi Vision 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this study assesses community awareness and identifies pathways toward sustainable part…
Survey results in the Sahel of northern Butana in Sudan
The Sahel region of Sudan, serving as the ecoclimatic transition zone between the arid Sahara Desert to the north and the Sudanian savanna and Ethiopian forests to the south, holds significant importance in comprehending human adaptation, cultural evolution, and mobility within the Northern Hemisphere of Africa. This significance is underscored by the abundance of prehistoric archaeological findings and the numerous sites documented over the past…
Terminal Neolithic archaeology in northern Butana, central Sudan, as seen from the site of NB4
Ongoing archaeological surveys and excavations in central Sudan over the past few decades have documented many Neolithic horizons, varying in contexts and landscapes. Comprehensive studies of lithic artefacts, pottery and palaeoenvironmental proxies have revealed different occupation patterns and multiple mechanisms that exploit the local environment. Contrasts are most evident between sites located along the Middle Nile and those found in the Bu…
Landscape of Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites in Ha'il province, northern Saudi Arabia
New evidence for Neolithic occupation in north-west Arabia
Recent archaeological investigations in AlUla County have provided the first detailed chrono-cultural evidence for long-term Neolithic domestic occupation in this archaeologically unknown region of north-west Arabia. This paper presents the preliminary findings drawn from multi-scalar datasets collected through extensive aerial and ground surveys, and the excavations of ‘monumental’ architectural installations, named in this study as ‘Standing St…
Heavily eroded Pleistocene landscape and site-forming processes of the Acheulean artifacts-bearing Holocene sediments, Eastern Desert, Sudan
Since the Middle Pleistocene, the Sahara region has undergone strong environmental changes resulting from climate changes. Dry periods, constituting an ecological barrier to human presence, alternated with wet periods when the Sahara area was covered with green savanna and an extensive network of watercourses, allowing the area to be occupied by hunter-gatherer groups. Responding to the Quaternary climatic changes, hominin dispersal was channeled…
A Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle
This article presents the results of research carried out at two previously unreported Eastern Desert Atbara River project (EDAR) Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites—EDAR 134 and EDAR 155. Luminescence dating results indicate human activity in this area during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 period (MIS 5), approximately 90 kya. Discussion concerning the affiliation of both analyzed inventories will be provided, including another MSA site from the EDAR area,…
Dating of Stratified Settlement Remains in Faid Pilgrim Station, Northwest of Saudi Arabia
Faid was a major pilgrim Islamic oasis located 120 km southeast of the Ha’il Province, northwest of Saudi Arabia. It was founded on the major Hajj Road between Baghdad/Kufa and Medina and was developed by Zubaydah bint Ja'far, granddaughter to the Caliph Abu Ja'far al-Mansur (the founder of Baghdad) and wife to the fifth Abbasid Caliph, Harun Ar-Rašid 775–785 CE. Therefore, during the reign of Harun Ar-Rašid Caliph, the major pilgrim road was ren…
Khor Abu Anga, Sudan
Monumental Stone Structure Archaeology in Northwest Saudi Arabia
Increased archaeological fieldwork in Saudi Arabia is contributing toward a more precise general idea about ancient Arabia. Moreover, the history of Arabian archaeology demonstrates that major discoveries and advances have been achieved as a result of systematic field enterprises. However, several regions in Saudi Arabia remain unstudied. One such major area is Ha’il in the north. Our intensive desktop-archaeological survey using remote sensing r…
Reconnaissance a new Palaeolithic site at Al-Huwaidy in Ha’il region, northwest Saudi Arabia
Ha’il region in northwest Saudi Arabia is characterized by the presence of oases, flat plains, Paleo-lakes, and lava fields, which are some of the main landscape characteristics in which Palaeolithic sites have been found in the region. It is located on one of the routes of early hominin dispersal across Arabia. The ongoing archaeological research made by the Paleodeserts and Disperse projects have recorded several Acheulean and Middle Palaeolith…
Gold Miners on the Trail of the Earliest Humans in Eastern Saharan Africa. Investigating the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Sudanese Nubia
This research note presents evidence for the oldest Middle Pleistocene Eastern Saharan human activity from the area referred to as the Eastern Desert Atbara River ( EDAR ), Sudan, which is currently threatened by gold mining. Preliminary results of multifaceted analyses indicate the activity of Homo sapiens during MIS 5 as well as Homo erectus during MIS 7–11 or earlier
Reconnaissance of Prehistoric Sites in the Red Sea Coastal Region of the Sudan, NE Africa
This paper reports results of a recent Stone Age-focused archaeological survey in the Red Sea coastal region of the Republic of Sudan, northeast Africa. Bifaces (handaxes) are the most conspicuous artifact class encountered during the survey and are characteristic of the Acheulean technocomplex. Other recorded artifact types include points, scrapers, and prepared core products referable to the Nubian and recurrent Levallois methods. Most of the a…
Saharan green corridors and Middle Pleistocene hominin dispersals across the Eastern Desert, Sudan
New discovery of Acheulean occupation in the Red Sea coastal region of the Sudan
Late prehistoric sites from the Sabaloka province north of Khartoum on the Eastern bank of the Nile, Sudan
Les recherches archéologiques conduites au Soudan suggèrent que les communautés de la préhistoire récente se sont développées au travers de transitions majeures et d’une diversité régionale notable. Dans les régions centrale et septentrionale, un nombre important de sites d’habitat des périodes mésolithique et néolithique ont été identifiés. Les données inédites émergeant de projets en cours comme le Sabaloka Dam archaeological project (SDASP) an…
Saharan green corridors and Middle Pleistocene hominin dispersals across the Eastern Desert, Sudan
Reconnaissance of Prehistoric Sites in the Red Sea Coastal Region of the Sudan, NE Africa
This paper reports results of a recent Stone Age-focused archaeological survey in the Red Sea coastal region of the Republic of Sudan, northeast Africa. Bifaces (handaxes) are the most conspicuous artifact class encountered during the survey and are characteristic of the Acheulean technocomplex. Other recorded artifact types include points, scrapers, and prepared core products referable to the Nubian and recurrent Levallois methods. Most of the a…
Gold Miners on the Trail of the Earliest Humans in Eastern Saharan Africa. Investigating the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Sudanese Nubia
This research note presents evidence for the oldest Middle Pleistocene Eastern Saharan human activity from the area referred to as the Eastern Desert Atbara River ( EDAR ), Sudan, which is currently threatened by gold mining. Preliminary results of multifaceted analyses indicate the activity of Homo sapiens during MIS 5 as well as Homo erectus during MIS 7–11 or earlier
Heavily eroded Pleistocene landscape and site-forming processes of the Acheulean artifacts-bearing Holocene sediments, Eastern Desert, Sudan
Since the Middle Pleistocene, the Sahara region has undergone strong environmental changes resulting from climate changes. Dry periods, constituting an ecological barrier to human presence, alternated with wet periods when the Sahara area was covered with green savanna and an extensive network of watercourses, allowing the area to be occupied by hunter-gatherer groups. Responding to the Quaternary climatic changes, hominin dispersal was channeled…
Reconnaissance a new Palaeolithic site at Al-Huwaidy in Ha’il region, northwest Saudi Arabia
Ha’il region in northwest Saudi Arabia is characterized by the presence of oases, flat plains, Paleo-lakes, and lava fields, which are some of the main landscape characteristics in which Palaeolithic sites have been found in the region. It is located on one of the routes of early hominin dispersal across Arabia. The ongoing archaeological research made by the Paleodeserts and Disperse projects have recorded several Acheulean and Middle Palaeolith…
New discovery of Acheulean occupation in the Red Sea coastal region of the Sudan
A Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle
This article presents the results of research carried out at two previously unreported Eastern Desert Atbara River project (EDAR) Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites—EDAR 134 and EDAR 155. Luminescence dating results indicate human activity in this area during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 period (MIS 5), approximately 90 kya. Discussion concerning the affiliation of both analyzed inventories will be provided, including another MSA site from the EDAR area,…
Late prehistoric sites from the Sabaloka province north of Khartoum on the Eastern bank of the Nile, Sudan
Les recherches archéologiques conduites au Soudan suggèrent que les communautés de la préhistoire récente se sont développées au travers de transitions majeures et d’une diversité régionale notable. Dans les régions centrale et septentrionale, un nombre important de sites d’habitat des périodes mésolithique et néolithique ont été identifiés. Les données inédites émergeant de projets en cours comme le Sabaloka Dam archaeological project (SDASP) an…
Late prehistoric sites from the Sabaloka province north of Khartoum on the Eastern bank of the Nile, Sudan
Les recherches archéologiques conduites au Soudan suggèrent que les communautés de la préhistoire récente se sont développées au travers de transitions majeures et d’une diversité régionale notable. Dans les régions centrale et septentrionale, un nombre important de sites d’habitat des périodes mésolithique et néolithique ont été identifiés. Les données inédites émergeant de projets en cours comme le Sabaloka Dam archaeological project (SDASP) an…
New discovery of Acheulean occupation in the Red Sea coastal region of the Sudan
Reconnaissance of Prehistoric Sites in the Red Sea Coastal Region of the Sudan, NE Africa
This paper reports results of a recent Stone Age-focused archaeological survey in the Red Sea coastal region of the Republic of Sudan, northeast Africa. Bifaces (handaxes) are the most conspicuous artifact class encountered during the survey and are characteristic of the Acheulean technocomplex. Other recorded artifact types include points, scrapers, and prepared core products referable to the Nubian and recurrent Levallois methods. Most of the a…
Saharan green corridors and Middle Pleistocene hominin dispersals across the Eastern Desert, Sudan
Gold Miners on the Trail of the Earliest Humans in Eastern Saharan Africa. Investigating the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Sudanese Nubia
This research note presents evidence for the oldest Middle Pleistocene Eastern Saharan human activity from the area referred to as the Eastern Desert Atbara River ( EDAR ), Sudan, which is currently threatened by gold mining. Preliminary results of multifaceted analyses indicate the activity of Homo sapiens during MIS 5 as well as Homo erectus during MIS 7–11 or earlier
Reconnaissance a new Palaeolithic site at Al-Huwaidy in Ha’il region, northwest Saudi Arabia
Ha’il region in northwest Saudi Arabia is characterized by the presence of oases, flat plains, Paleo-lakes, and lava fields, which are some of the main landscape characteristics in which Palaeolithic sites have been found in the region. It is located on one of the routes of early hominin dispersal across Arabia. The ongoing archaeological research made by the Paleodeserts and Disperse projects have recorded several Acheulean and Middle Palaeolith…
Dating of Stratified Settlement Remains in Faid Pilgrim Station, Northwest of Saudi Arabia
Faid was a major pilgrim Islamic oasis located 120 km southeast of the Ha’il Province, northwest of Saudi Arabia. It was founded on the major Hajj Road between Baghdad/Kufa and Medina and was developed by Zubaydah bint Ja'far, granddaughter to the Caliph Abu Ja'far al-Mansur (the founder of Baghdad) and wife to the fifth Abbasid Caliph, Harun Ar-Rašid 775–785 CE. Therefore, during the reign of Harun Ar-Rašid Caliph, the major pilgrim road was ren…
Khor Abu Anga, Sudan
Monumental Stone Structure Archaeology in Northwest Saudi Arabia
Increased archaeological fieldwork in Saudi Arabia is contributing toward a more precise general idea about ancient Arabia. Moreover, the history of Arabian archaeology demonstrates that major discoveries and advances have been achieved as a result of systematic field enterprises. However, several regions in Saudi Arabia remain unstudied. One such major area is Ha’il in the north. Our intensive desktop-archaeological survey using remote sensing r…
New evidence for Neolithic occupation in north-west Arabia
Recent archaeological investigations in AlUla County have provided the first detailed chrono-cultural evidence for long-term Neolithic domestic occupation in this archaeologically unknown region of north-west Arabia. This paper presents the preliminary findings drawn from multi-scalar datasets collected through extensive aerial and ground surveys, and the excavations of ‘monumental’ architectural installations, named in this study as ‘Standing St…
Heavily eroded Pleistocene landscape and site-forming processes of the Acheulean artifacts-bearing Holocene sediments, Eastern Desert, Sudan
Since the Middle Pleistocene, the Sahara region has undergone strong environmental changes resulting from climate changes. Dry periods, constituting an ecological barrier to human presence, alternated with wet periods when the Sahara area was covered with green savanna and an extensive network of watercourses, allowing the area to be occupied by hunter-gatherer groups. Responding to the Quaternary climatic changes, hominin dispersal was channeled…
A Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle
This article presents the results of research carried out at two previously unreported Eastern Desert Atbara River project (EDAR) Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites—EDAR 134 and EDAR 155. Luminescence dating results indicate human activity in this area during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 period (MIS 5), approximately 90 kya. Discussion concerning the affiliation of both analyzed inventories will be provided, including another MSA site from the EDAR area,…
Survey results in the Sahel of northern Butana in Sudan
The Sahel region of Sudan, serving as the ecoclimatic transition zone between the arid Sahara Desert to the north and the Sudanian savanna and Ethiopian forests to the south, holds significant importance in comprehending human adaptation, cultural evolution, and mobility within the Northern Hemisphere of Africa. This significance is underscored by the abundance of prehistoric archaeological findings and the numerous sites documented over the past…
Terminal Neolithic archaeology in northern Butana, central Sudan, as seen from the site of NB4
Ongoing archaeological surveys and excavations in central Sudan over the past few decades have documented many Neolithic horizons, varying in contexts and landscapes. Comprehensive studies of lithic artefacts, pottery and palaeoenvironmental proxies have revealed different occupation patterns and multiple mechanisms that exploit the local environment. Contrasts are most evident between sites located along the Middle Nile and those found in the Bu…
Landscape of Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites in Ha'il province, northern Saudi Arabia
Evaluating Public Awareness of Prehistoric Heritage in Ha’il, Northern Saudi Arabia, and Identifying Opportunities for Improving Social Participation
Prehistoric archaeological research in the region of Ha’il, northern Saudi Arabia has produced discoveries central to understanding Arabian heritage. Yet, despite extensive site documentation, little is known about local community awareness of prehistoric heritage or its social value. Aligned with Saudi Vision 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this study assesses community awareness and identifies pathways toward sustainable part…
Archaeology (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 works) · History (8 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Geology (6 works) · Pleistocene (6 works) · Acheulean (5 works)