Facing Early Bronze Age climate change in South East Arabia
New data from the hydraulic structures of Salūt-ST1, Central Oman: A geoarchaeological perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7170473 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michele Degli Esposti (0000-0002-7544-0735, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, corresponding author), Marco Cremaschi (0000-0003-2934-3210, Dipartimento di Science della Terra ‘A. Desio’, Università di Milano, Italy), Mauro Cremaschi, Susan Costanzo (0000-0002-0269-075X, Dipartimento di Science della Terra ‘A. Desio’, Università di Milano, Italy) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-60 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Holocene (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-6836 • E-ISSN: 1477-0911 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09596836241285781 |
| OpenAlex | W4403563805 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 35 |
Studies concerning the human response to changing climate in the arid region of South East Arabia are currently scarce and rarely based on geoarchaeological data. The detailed geoarchaeological study of the sedimentary filling of ditches, channels and wells at the Bronze Age tower site of Salūt-ST1, in central Oman, provides the opportunity to start filling this lacuna. The data, collected with a combination of field observation and thin section study, illustrate the lowering of the water table from the Early Bronze Age to the Iron Age II period (c. 2500–600 BC) as a result of local aridification. Besides, they shed light on the ways in which the community living in the area first exploited a still favourable situation with a relatively abundant water supply and later was forced to cope with the deteriorating climate around the end of the third millennium BC. While the study highlights climate change at a relatively small scale, the results and their interpretation are contextualized with other, larger-scale paleoclimate data available for the region. The Early Bronze Age hydraulic structures of Salūt-ST1 are also discussed in relation to similar structures excavated in South East Arabia
Archaeology · Aridification · Bronze Age · Climate change · Geoarchaeology · Geography · Paleoclimatology · Physical geography · Sedimentology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |