In Dhofar, the southern Governorate of the Sultanate of Oman, the deep canyons cutting the Nejd plateau once flowed with perennial rivers, feeding wetland environments, forests, and grasslands across the now desiccated interior. The first peoples of Oman flourished along these waterways, drawn to the freshwater springs and abundant game, as well as the myriad chert outcrops with which to fashion their hunting implements and other tools. The landscapes of the Nejd Plateau are a natural museum of human prehistory, covered in carpets of chipped stone debris. The archaeological evidence presented in this work encompasses the cultural remains of over a million years of successive human occupations, from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Late Palaeolithic. Once considered an evolutionary backwater or merely a migratory way station, the archaeology of Dhofar requires a fundamental reconsideration of the role of Southern Arabia in the origin and dispersal of our species.

About the Author
Jeffrey I. Rose, Research Scholar at the Ronin Institute, is a specialist in the prehistory of North Africa and Southwest Asia.
Yemandu H. Hilbert, Associated Researcher at the Archeorient laboratory of French CNRS, has conducted fieldwork in Eurasia and North Africa since 2005 and is a specialist on the Late Paleolithic of Dhofar.
Anthony E. Marks conducted pioneering prehistoric research in the Nile Valley and southern Levant. Since 2003, Prof. Marks has focused his research activities in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
Vitaly I. Usik, Senior Researcher in the Ukraine National Academy of Sciences, has carried out technological studies on a wide range of lithic assemblages from Northeast Africa, the Levant, Arabia and western Eurasia.


Book Information
ISBN 9781789692846
Author Jeffrey I. Rose
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Archaeopress
Publisher Archaeopress
Weight(grams) 822g
Dimensions(mm) 296mm * 210mm * 10mm