A new Arabian stone tool assemblage and notes on the Aterian industry of North Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9320132 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H A McClure (Natural History Museum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 1994-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arabian archaeology and epigraphy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0905-7196 • E-ISSN: 1600-0471 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1600-0471.1994.tb00052.x |
| OpenAlex | W1965216546 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 1 |
An unusual stone tool assemblage, reported for the first time in the Arabian Peninsula, occurs at the southwest edge of the Rub’al Khali desert. The assemblage is characterized by large, unifacially worked, prominently tanged points and scrapers. An age of between about 20,000 and 35,000 years B.P., when the Rub’al Khali was a well‐watered grassland, is likely. Typological affinity with the Aterian stone tool industry of North Africa is suggested. Aterian toolmakers were a vigorous population of desert hunters, ranging over much of North Africa and the Sahara during a wet phase of the late Pleistocene. Pursuit of animals running in herds may have been a hunting strategy reflected in some of the Aterian and Arabian tools. Typology of the tanged tools and the palaeogeographic context in which they occur suggest certain specific functional usage
Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Biology · Context (archaeology · Desert (philosophy · Fauna · Faunal assemblage · Geography · Later Stone Age · Middle Stone Age · Peninsula · Pleistocene · Population · Scraper site · Stone tool · African Studies and Geopolitics · Archaeological and Geological Studies · Demography · Engineering · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology
Back to Fasad… and the PPNB controversy. Questioning a Levantine origin for Arabian Early Holocene projectile points technology
The Paleolithic of Arabia in an Inter-regional Context
New Data from the Site of Ifri n’Ammar (Morocco) and Some Remarks on the Chronometric Status of the Middle Paleolithic in the Maghreb
Culture and Convergence
The Central Oman Paleolithic Survey
Archaeological records indicate a complex history of Pleistocene hunter-gatherer societies in Arabia
Out of Africa
New Neolithic sites in the western al‐Hajar mountains
Functional Perspectives on Lithic Standardization
Changes in hafting practices during the Middle Stone Age at Ifri n’ Ammar
The Bab al Mandab vs the Nile-Levant
The Middle Palaeolithic of Arabia
The prehistory of the Arabian peninsula
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |