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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.

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