Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61389005%3A_____%2F25%3A00642830" target="_blank" >RIV/61389005:_____/25:00642830 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68081758:_____/25:00644863 RIV/67985912:_____/25:00644863
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-025-00235-0" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-025-00235-0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41982-025-00235-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s41982-025-00235-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa
Original language description
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. This study describes a representative sample of 15 such assemblages and conducts quantitative analyses to explore variability in core reduction strategies, metric proportions, and post-depositional surface modifications. Lithic taphonomy provides insight into assemblage homogeneity and relative chronologies, allowing us to explore diachronic changes on time-averaged surfaces. We identify at least two distinct cultural entities - the earlier 'Dhofar Nubian' and later 'Mudayyan' industries - distinguished most significantly by a dramatic reduction in size, as well as a shift from preferential to recurrent organizational systems. Our findings highlight the prominence of Nubian Levallois technology in Dhofar within at least two different lithic industries. The later Mudayyan exhibits systematic miniaturization and a shift toward volumetric core configurations, reflecting broader behavioral trends in the Late Pleistocene. Contrary to our expectation, the evidence does not necessarily support cultural continuity between the Dhofar Nubian and Mudayyan industries and may represent multiple dispersal events along the Southern Dispersal Route.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10406 - Analytical chemistry
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
ISSN
2520-8217
e-ISSN
2520-8217
Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
40
UT code for WoS article
001628456400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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