The middle paleolithic of Arabia. / Derevianko, A. P.
In: Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, Vol. 44, No. 4, 2016, p. 3-25.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - The middle paleolithic of Arabia
AU - Derevianko, A. P.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The study focuses on the origin and evolution of the Middle Paleolithic in the Arabian Peninsula, a major crossroads of human and animal migrations connecting Africa with Eurasia in the Late Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene. Middle Paleolithic human dispersal in Arabia was caused by intermittent environmental changes and related fl uctuations of the Bab-el-Mandeb level. A key role in the African Middle Paleolithic was played by Afro-Arabian Nubian lithic industries showing characteristically Levallois features and associated with anatomically modern humans who had migrated from Africa. Arabian fi nds are discussed with reference to the Out-of-Africa and Multiregional models of human evolution. Based on the totality of cranial, archaeological, and paleogenetic data, it is proposed that modern humankind emerged from the admixture of at least four related taxa that had evolved in Africa and Eurasia. A hypothesis about the migration of Homo sapiens from Africa across Arabia to Southeast Asia and Sahul 70-50 ka BP is discussed.
AB - The study focuses on the origin and evolution of the Middle Paleolithic in the Arabian Peninsula, a major crossroads of human and animal migrations connecting Africa with Eurasia in the Late Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene. Middle Paleolithic human dispersal in Arabia was caused by intermittent environmental changes and related fl uctuations of the Bab-el-Mandeb level. A key role in the African Middle Paleolithic was played by Afro-Arabian Nubian lithic industries showing characteristically Levallois features and associated with anatomically modern humans who had migrated from Africa. Arabian fi nds are discussed with reference to the Out-of-Africa and Multiregional models of human evolution. Based on the totality of cranial, archaeological, and paleogenetic data, it is proposed that modern humankind emerged from the admixture of at least four related taxa that had evolved in Africa and Eurasia. A hypothesis about the migration of Homo sapiens from Africa across Arabia to Southeast Asia and Sahul 70-50 ka BP is discussed.
KW - Afro-Arabian Nubian industry
KW - Aridization
KW - Bifaces
KW - Levallois reduction method
KW - Pleistocene
KW - Pluvials
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U2 - 10.17746/1563-0102.2016.44.4.003-025
DO - 10.17746/1563-0102.2016.44.4.003-025
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85037150473
VL - 44
SP - 3
EP - 25
JO - Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia
JF - Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia
SN - 1563-0110
IS - 4
ER -
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