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- Groundbreaking approach to human prehistory
- Pioneering archaeological research from an unexplored region
- Grand synthesis of prehistoric archaeology, climate change, and Middle Eastern mythology
Part of the book series: Springer Textbooks in Archaeology and Heritage (STAH)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This textbook explores the mystery of human origins in the Arabian Peninsula, the lost Southern Crescent where humanity took its first steps toward civilization. Under Arabia’s surface of sand and stone lies a primordial realm of rolling grasslands, freshwater lakes, and river floodplains. This book aims to restore a critical missing chapter in the prehistory of our species that played out in this forgotten place of plenty.
The author has carried out more than twenty years of fieldwork in Yemen and Oman, weaving his research together into an unorthodox tapestry of archaeology, environmental science, genetics, and Middle Eastern mythology. This volume peers beneath Arabia’s abandoned deserts, revealing a land that once served as a bridge between prehistoric worlds. This textbook is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students as well as all readers who are interested in learning about Arabian prehistory.
Keywords
- Prehistory of the Arabian Peninsula
- Middle Eastern Mythology
- Modern Human Emergence
- Ancient Climate Change
- Hominid Migrations Out of Africa
- Middle Eastern Archaeogenetics
- Neolithic Revolution
- Cattle Domestication
- Ice Age Refugia
- Lithic Analysis
- People of 'Ad'
- Arabia Arcadia
- Flintknapping
- the genus homo
- Plio-Pleistocene transition
- Homo heidelbergensis
- Arabian Acheulean
- Arabian menschenpumpe
- Deglaciation
- Katabasis
Authors and Affiliations
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Ronin Institute, New Jersey, USA
Jeffrey I. Rose
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Introduction to Human Prehistory in Arabia
Book Subtitle: The Lost World of the Southern Crescent
Authors: Jeffrey I. Rose
Series Title: Springer Textbooks in Archaeology and Heritage
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95667-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95666-0Published: 19 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95669-1Published: 20 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95667-7Published: 18 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-6297
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6300
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 324
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of the Middle East, Archaeology, Middle Eastern Culture, Environment, general