The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman. An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia

0369541 - ARÚ 2012 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Rose, J. I. - Usik, V. I. - Marks, A. E. - Hilbert, Y. H. - Galletti, Ch. S. - Parton, A. - Geiling, J. M. - Černý, Viktor - Morley, M. W. - Roberts, R. G.
The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman. An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia.
PLoS ONE. Roč. 6, č. 11 (2011), e28239. ISSN 1932-6203. E-ISSN 1932-6203
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT ME 917
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80020508
Keywords : Out of Africa * Dhofar * migrations
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology
Impact factor: 4.092, year: 2011
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0028239

The article describes the recent archaeological findings in Southern Oman resembling a specific Middle Stone Age African industry known as the Nubian Complex. This culture was known previously only from the northeast and east Africa where flourishing during MIS 5 so 128,000 – 74,000 years ago. The optically stimulated luminescence dates place the Nubian Complex findings in Omani site Aybut Al Auwal at around 106,000 years ago. These findings indicate very ancient demographic exchange across the Red Sea maybe related with the first out of Africa spread of the anatomically modern humans. Why this migration had not left the signals in the extant South Arabian gene pool is discussed in the article.
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