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The first evidence ofMiddle Palaeolithic Nubian technology in north-central Oman A. Beshkani1,∗, T. Beuzen-Waller2, S. Bonilauri3 & G. Gernez4
quote:Since 2012, the French Mission in Oman has discovered several Palaeolithic sites in the south-eastern foothills of the Sufrat Dishshah (a hill of the Sufrat Valley/Wad¯ ¯ı al-Сufrat), in ¯ the Adam region of north-central Oman. These sites are attributed to the Lower through to the Late Palaeolithic (Bonilauri et al. 2015). The 2016 field season was dedicated to further investigation of the previously identified sites of the Sufrat Dishshah area. A number of additional artefacts were located and studied on site; four artefacts—two bifaces and two Nubian cores—were retained for further study. These finds have particular importance for the understanding of Middle Palaeolithic variability and cultural diffusion in Oman, and they represent one of the most significant results of the 2016 Adam expedition.
The Nubian Complex, a subcategory of the Levallois technocomplex, was first identified in northern Sudan in the 1960s (Guichard & Guichard 1965). To date, additional sites using this technology have been discovered in North Africa—the middle and lower Nile Valley—and also East Africa (Van Peer 2000; Van Peer et al. 2010). Outside of the African continent, Nubian technology has been identified across southern Arabia, including central Yemen (Inizan & Ortlieb 1987; Crassard 2009) and southern Oman (Rose et al. 2011; Usik et al. 2012), and in northern Saudi Arabia at the Al-Jawf sites (Hilbert et al. in press). The Nubian Complex emerged chronologically in early MIS 5 (Vermeersch 2010). In southern Oman, the site at Aybut Al Auwal places the Arabian Nubian Complex at 106 000 years ago (Rose et al. 2011) (Figure 1).
The Nubian Complex is generally divided into types one and two. In the former, management of the medial distal guiding ridge on the flaking face is usually achieved by removing two distal-divergent débordant flakes to form the pointed distal end through the negative of the bulb of percussion. In most cases, a convergent final product was removed from the opposed striking platform at the proximal end. Both of the cores collected from the Sufrat site—Adam region (Figure 2)—show this specific bidirectional flaking pattern with lateral preparation. As such, the cores can be attributed to the Nubian type one
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Nice post. We need more on the connection and continuation of the Nubian Complex. This will give more clarity in genetic structures of human-genome, as well as other genomes.
Many of these so called Eurasian back migrations cluster with a Nubian Complex continuation.
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quote:Originally posted by Ish Gebor: Nice post. We need more on the connection and continuation of the Nubian Complex. This will give more clarity in genetic structures of human-genome, as well as other genomes.
Many of these so called Eurasian back migrations cluster with a Nubian Complex continuation.
Correct. As long as Europeans continue to perpetuate the myth of a single OOA event, when we see at least five migrations of Nubians into Arabia ending with the Tihama culture. Europeans have concentrated on a so-called Levant migration as the major route for the movement of Africans into Europe.
This is a false view. The major migrations of Africans into Eurasia was via Iran from here they migrated east, west and North. As a result, it appears that the migration of Yamnaya began in Siberia when in reality it was a migration of Kushites who entered Eurasia via Iran migrated northward and then made a migration westward into Europe.
Let's not forget the route from East Africa across Kumarinadu into India and Australia. sundaland was probably a secondary migration route.
Genetics can only show where people end up. It is archaeology that points to the directions that peiople move.
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quote:Originally posted by Clyde Winters: a migration of Kushites who entered Eurasia via Iran migrated northward and then made a migration westward into Europe.
Ish Gebor what are the dates when Kushites migrated into Europe?
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quote:Originally posted by Clyde Winters: a migration of Kushites who entered Eurasia via Iran migrated northward and then made a migration westward into Europe.
Ish Gebor what are the dates when Kushites migrated into Europe?
What ?
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