2020
First Assessment of The Research Potential of The Prehistoric Intermountain Site Hayl Al Ajah in The Al Hajar Mountains of Northern Oman (Project SIPO)
MATEICIUCOVÁ, Inna; Maximilian WILDING; Max ENGEL; Jiří OTAVA; Miroslav BUBÍK et al.Základní údaje
Originální název
First Assessment of The Research Potential of The Prehistoric Intermountain Site Hayl Al Ajah in The Al Hajar Mountains of Northern Oman (Project SIPO)
Autoři
MATEICIUCOVÁ, Inna; Maximilian WILDING; Max ENGEL; Jiří OTAVA a Miroslav BUBÍK
Vydání
The Journal of Oman Studies, Muscat, Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Sultanate Oman, 2020, 0378-8180
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Obor
60102 Archaeology
Stát vydavatele
Omán
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Odkazy
Označené pro přenos do RIV
Ano
Kód RIV
RIV/00216224:14210/20:00117861
Organizační jednotka
Filozofická fakulta
Klíčová slova anglicky
Al Hajar Mountains; Lithics; Karstic Polje; Late Pleistocene; Middle Holocene
Štítky
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 12. 5. 2021 14:29, Mgr. Igor Hlaváč
Anotace
V originále
This contribution presents preliminary results of a first archaeological assessment of an elevated palaeohydrological feature in the central part of the Al Hajar Mountains (Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar). The 2018 Test Season at the karstic polje Hayl Al Ajah yielded the first direct evidence of a prehistoric occupation of intermountain places in Northern Oman as high as 1000 m a.s.l. The deflated and sediment-embedded lithics found are techno-typologically dated to the Late Pleistocene and Middle Holocene, i.e. periods with longer arid phases. The evidence of a human presence at high-elevation places earlier than formerly thought, raises the question what role the sediment-filled depressions in elevated position in the Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar could have played during prehistoric times. The Project SIPO of Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) will inquire when the utilization at the polje Hayl Al Ajah (1012 m a.s.l.) started and if some prehistoric groups could have held out in the interior of Oman during aridization phases, in refugia, by means of a long-term mountain adaption. The deep, layered sediment available at the site (polje fill) is a potential geo-archive suited for palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Together with the archaeological traces encountered the circumstances justify further systematic research at this intermountain site.