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DOI	10.1016/j.ara.2017.01.003
	Middle Palaeolithic raw material procurement and early stage reduction at Jubbah, Saudi Arabia
	Groucutt, Huw S.; Scerri, Eleanor M. L.; Amor, Ken; Shipton, Ceri; Jennings, Richard P.; Parton, Ash; Clark-Balzan, Laine; Alsharekh, Abdullah; Petraglia, Michael D.
通讯作者	Groucutt, HS (corresponding author), Univ Oxford, Sch Archaeol, Res Lab Archaeol & Hist Art, Hayes House,75 George St, Oxford OX1 2BQ, England.
来源期刊	ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN ASIA
ISSN	2352-2267
EISSN	2352-2275
出版年	2017
卷号	9 页码:44-62
英文摘要	Several hundred Middle Palaeolithic (MP) archaeological sites have now been identified in the Arabian Peninsula. However, the study of lithic raw material properties and related procurement behaviours is still in its infancy. Here we describe raw material procurement and early stage lithic reduction at MP sites in the Jubbah palaeolake basin, in the Nefud Desert, northern Saudi Arabia. We describe the sites identified during our surveys, and we use petrographic studies to demonstrate that MP assemblages were mostly produced from differing forms of ferruginous quartzite. These raw materials do not substantially vary in composition, although they are not identical in terms of factors such as grain size and the proportion of iron oxide. We then describe the lithic technology at these sites, with a particular focus on the largest assemblage identified, Jebel Katefeh-12 (JKF-12), which provides detailed information on lithic reduction at a quartzite source. Analyses from this site are then considered together with data from other MP sites in the Jubbah basin, where similar raw material was used. The results indicate that factors such as initial clast size/shape and reduction intensity play important roles in influencing aspects of morphological and technological variability. Our results suggest that incursions of MP populations into northern Arabia were probably temporally limited, as might be expected in a marginal and generally arid region. MP raw material procurement sites provide a highly visible signal of these ephemeral incursions, providing information on the ways that human populations adapted to the challenging conditions of the Saharo-Arabian arid belt. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Stone tools Lithics Raw material Levallois Mobility Dispersals
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Accepted
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000413144900005
WOS关键词	MATERIAL SELECTION ; FLINT EXTRACTION ; HOMO-SAPIENS ; OCCUPATION ; BEHAVIOR ; GALILEE ; COMPLEX ; SITE
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/361657
作者单位	[Groucutt, Huw S.; Scerri, Eleanor M. L.] Univ Oxford, Sch Archaeol, Res Lab Archaeol & Hist Art, Hayes House,75 George St, Oxford OX1 2BQ, England; [Amor, Ken] Univ Oxford, Dept Earth Sci, S Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3AN, England; [Shipton, Ceri] Univ Cambridge, McDonald Inst Archaeol Res, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3ER, England; [Shipton, Ceri] British Inst Eastern Africa, Laikipia Rd,POB 30710, Nairobi 00100, Gpo, Kenya; [Jennings, Richard P.] Liverpool John Moores Univ, Sch Nat Sci & Psychol, James Parsons Bldg,Byrom St, Liverpool L3 3AF, Merseyside, England; [Parton, Ash] Oxford Brookes Univ, Dept Social Sci, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, England; [Parton, Ash] Univ Oxford, Mansfield Coll, Oxford OX1 3TF, England; [Clark-Balzan, Laine] Albert Ludwigs Univ Freiburg, Freiburg, Baden Wurttembe, Germany; [Alsharekh, Abdullah] King Saud Univ, Dept Archaeol, POB 2627, Riyadh 12372, Saudi Arabia; [Petraglia, Michael D.] Max Planck Inst Sci Human Hist, Kahla Str 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Groucutt, Huw S.,Scerri, Eleanor M. L.,Amor, Ken,et al. Middle Palaeolithic raw material procurement and early stage reduction at Jubbah, Saudi Arabia[J],2017,9:44-62.
APA	Groucutt, Huw S..,Scerri, Eleanor M. L..,Amor, Ken.,Shipton, Ceri.,Jennings, Richard P..,...&Petraglia, Michael D..(2017).Middle Palaeolithic raw material procurement and early stage reduction at Jubbah, Saudi Arabia.ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN ASIA,9,44-62.
MLA	Groucutt, Huw S.,et al."Middle Palaeolithic raw material procurement and early stage reduction at Jubbah, Saudi Arabia".ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN ASIA 9(2017):44-62.