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Holocene Nile dynamics shaped the physical and cultural landscape of ancient Nubia. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Peeters J, Winkels TG, Wolf P, Skuldbøl TBB, Chamberlain EL, Büchner-Matthews S, Elamin SM, Mohamed EA, Emberling G.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An Overview of the Rock Art of AlUla: Tracing Changes in Content and Form Across 12,000 Years of Human History

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin, Laura Morabito, Hannah Leighton, Tahani AlMahmoud   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wetland Heritage in the Balance: Developing an Exploratory Model for Understanding Local Perceptions of Wetland Heritage. [PDF]

Wetlands (Wilmington)
Flint A, Jennings B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone‐built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more detailed excavation was undertaken in 2016 within one of the largest rectangular stone structures.
Khalid Alasmari, Stephanie F. Piper, Kirsten Grothe, W. Derek Hamilton, Delphine Joly, Penny Bickle, Geoff Bailey   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gaps in archaeological metadata reporting: a meta-analysis of human paleogenomic studies in Western Eurasia

Staniuk R, Lee VYK, Timpson A, Kristiansen K, Shennan S, Racimo F, Thomas MG.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fifteenth century CE Bolivian maize reveals genetic affinities with ancient Peruvian maize. [PDF]

Elife
Chen H, Baetsen-Young A, Thompson A, Day B, Madzima T, Wasef S, Rivera Casanovas C, Lovis W, Wrobel G.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Between the Indian Ocean and the Gulf: Ceramics From Ḥattā Oasis in the Emirate of Dubai

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the ceramic finds from archaeological investigations conducted in 2024 at two settlements: ‘Islamic Village' and Suhaila 2, one of a number of mountain villages of the Late Islamic period within the Ḥattā Oasis: a high‐altitude exclave in the Emirate of Dubai. The sites are located on the northeastern slopes of Jabal Qallāt
Seth M. N. Priestman, Agnese Kukela, Mansour Boraik, Hassan Mohammed Zein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Natufian Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the desert of northern Arabia. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Shipton C, Guagnin M, Al-Jibreen F, Stileman F, Stewart M, Armitage SJ, Drake N, Reepmeyer C, Breeze PS, van Buchem F, Al-Tamimi F, Al-Shamry M, Al-Shammari A, Al-Wadani J, Blinkhorn J, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia M.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

CRISP: Cremated remains inference of sex probabilities - A software for Bayesian sex estimation in human cremated remains. [PDF]

PLoS One
Waltenberger L, Beitel S, Bischeri M, Rebay-Salisbury K, Sperduti A, Cavazzuti C.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source