New publication from our sister Australian @latrobe.edu.au expedition in Oman 🎉👏 where @arduq.bsky.social is participating. // New insights from the Lahem rock shelter in Dhofar, southern Oman. // sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Czech archaeological expedition ARDUQ
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Archaeological landscape and environmental dynamics of Duqm and Dhofar, Oman.
@arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social What happened to humans who left Africa 100,000 years ago? Here, we bridge genetics and stone tools — Nubian Levallois from Oman dated 109–95 ka, synchronous with gene flow into Neanderthals. Novel stratified evidence. 🔗 doi.org/10.21203/rs....
A failed human expansion out of Africa 100,000 years ago
Early modern humans expanded out of Africa multiple times before 70,000 years ago, yet none of these populations are ancestral to living non-Africans. What caused these dispersals to fail? Here we inv...
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We have decided to share our new paper on failed OoA human expansion as a preprint, to avoid bias in judgement, and to create an open platform for feedback. Please follow @osamawi.bsky.social post to know more and to download preprint and data/code. @czechacademy.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
Osama Samawi@osamawi.bsky.social · 7mo ago@arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social What happened to humans who left Africa 100,000 years ago? Here, we bridge genetics and stone tools — Nubian Levallois from Oman dated 109–95 ka, synchronous with gene flow into Neanderthals. Novel stratified evidence. 🔗 doi.org/10.21203/rs....
Our ARDUQ 5A expedition concluded with a presentation of our field work at Ministry of Heritage and Tourism, followed by a lecture in Arabic on stone tool technologies in Oman, delivered by @osamawi.bsky.social from @icarehb.bsky.social , @czechacademy.bsky.social
🌍 How did miniature #stonetools revolutionized technology on Africa's southern migration route? Jeff Rose leads this study, with fellow #ICArEHB members Nuno Bicho, João Cascalheira, and Osama Samawi. doi.org/10.1007/s419... #Lithics #OutOfAfrica #Paleolithic
Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
Over the past fifteen years, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has mapped 272 Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic sites in southern Oman, each exhibiting some extent of Nubian Levallois technology. T...
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#Oman #MSA New paper is OUT! We trace how Dhofar’s MSA shifts from Nubian Levallois cores to the miniaturized Mudayyan industry—highlighting changing technologies along the southern dispersal route out of Africa. @arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
Over the past fifteen years, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has mapped 272 Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic sites in southern Oman, each exhibiting some extent of Nubian Levallois technology. T...
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Great collection of articles on Arabia! Congratulations to authors 🎉
Tara Beuzen-Waller@tarabeuzen.bsky.social · 10mo agoThis collection dedicated to human-environment interaction in Ancient Arabia is nearly completed :) It’s one of the results of the UmWeltWandel project in Oman 🇴🇲 and of an amazing meeting hosted in Tübingen. openquaternary.com/collections/...
ARDUQ 5A expedition is in full swing. Our fieldwork in Nejd plateau in southern Oman is focused on collecting samples for paleoenvironmental, micro-morphological, geochemical and OSL dating analyses from the excavated stratified Palaeolithic sites. @czechacademy.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
Our recent paper gets online attention 😊
Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 12mo agoFor #FindsFriday, here are some shell, stone and shark tooth beads and pendants from a Neolithic grave at Wadi Nafūn, Oman. These materials indicate a symbolic connection to marine themes amongst the people buried here. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
It is finally OUT! 🎉 My book "HINTERLAND MONUMENTS OF ANCIENT NOMADS: Trilith Stone Structures of Southeastern Arabia" was published by @archaeopress.bsky.social Book is the first dedicated study of these enigmatic 2000-year-old ritual monuments. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
Very sad news today. Anthony E. Marks has passed away. He conducted pioneering prehistoric research in the Nile Valley, the southern Levant and Arabia, producing seminal works on the Palaeolithic. In 2023, aged 85, he still joined the @arduq.bsky.social excavations in Dhofar, Oman. Rest in peace.
New publication is out 🎉 from ARDUQ team! Nicknamed as "bone midden" in Nafun north of Duqm revealed incredible finds! Research is led by Betka Danielisova @czechacademy.bsky.social The first collective Neolithic megalithic tomb in Oman | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/47swNqQ
The first collective Neolithic megalithic tomb in Oman | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The first collective Neolithic megalithic tomb in Oman
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One of the use cases is from Duqm 😊
Archaeometry@archaeometry.bsky.social · last yr.This paper will be in our forthcoming #Lithics special issue: What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #EarlyView #OpenAccess
Today, we opened in collaboration with MHT and SEZAD an exhibition in Duqm // Archaeological Heritage of Al-Wusta Governorate // to disseminate our research results with the local community. @ltuarchaeology.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
