First Research Activities at the Prehistoric Mountain Site Hayl
Ajah at the Inner Flank of Al Jabal Al Kawr

C 2025

First Research Activities at the Prehistoric Mountain Site Hayl Ajah at the Inner Flank of Al Jabal Al Kawr

MATEICIUCOVÁ, Inna a Maximilian WILDING

Základní údaje

Originální název

First Research Activities at the Prehistoric Mountain Site Hayl Ajah at the Inner Flank of Al Jabal Al Kawr

Autoři

MATEICIUCOVÁ, Inna a Maximilian WILDING

Vydání

1. vyd. Muscat, Athar : Bulletin of Archaeological Research in the Sultanate of Oman. Issue 1, Field Season 2022-2023, od s. 156-165, 10 s. 2025

Nakladatel

Ministry of Heritage and Tourism, Sultanate of Oman

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

60102 Archaeology

Stát vydavatele

Omán

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

elektronická verze "online"

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-99992-1-097-3

Klíčová slova anglicky

human adaptation; karst depression; mountain archaology; silt provenance; Oman

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 13. 2. 2026 14:08, Mgr. Ester Gaja Pučálková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

As the first undertaking of its kind, Project SIPO has embarked in 2018 on the environmental-archaeological research of a lithic site in Oman in a true mountain ambient – Hayl Ajah (a large sediment-filled depression at 1019 m a.s.l. on an intermontane karst plateau between Al Jabal Al Kawr and Al Jabal Al Ghul; Figs 1 and 2). Because porous karstic limestone – other than more compact rocks – allows the infiltration of precipitation water into the matrix of the rock itself, our project aims to find out, whether during prehistoric periods a degree of water storage inside limestone rock-layers and aeolian surface sediments could have made good for the reduced precipitation in the northern part of Oman compared to the country’s south. Judging from the archaeological finds, the site Hayl Ajah and similar smaller sediment places in the surroundings mountains have been accessed by people during different prehistoric periods (probably since the Middle Palaeolithic, definitely during the Neolithic and Umm an-Nar period). At the present stage we encounter various kinds of small, dispersed water and sediment features in our research area that could have served mobile foragingpastoral groups while roaming the bleak mountain landscape. Indicative of this is the remarkably wide spectrum of mostly non-local raw materials used for the stone artefacts of Hayl Ajah. For some of the lithics encountered at the mountain site, yet no real analogy to lithic traditions in other parts of the Arabian Peninsula can be found. Other stone artefacts, according to first OSL/C14 dates, belong to a time period when aridization was under way (Late Neolithic). From this evidence we infer tentatively that mountainous places in Al Jabal Al Hajar have had significance for prehistoric humans during past dry periods - perhaps as the “roof section” of an environmentally diversified, yet integrated refugium in the Kawr-Akhdar Area encompassing the more open alluvial places at the mountain front (cf. Uerpmann, Uerpmann & Jasim 2000).

Návaznosti

MUNI/FF-DEAN/1561/2022, interní kód MU

Název: Prehistorická refugia v centrální části pohoří Al-Hajar v severním Ománu

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Prehistorická refugia v centrální části pohoří Al-Hajar v severním Ománu, Děkanský grant

MUNI/FF-DEAN/1705/2023, interní kód MU

Název: Hayl (pl. huyul), specifický krajinný útvar v pohoří Al-Hajar (JV Arábie) a jeho význam pro pravěkého člověka

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Hayl (pl. huyul), specifický krajinný útvar v pohoří Al-Hajar (JV Arábie) a jeho význam pro pravěkého člověka, Děkanský grant

Citovat

MATEICIUCOVÁ, Inna a Maximilian WILDING. First Research Activities at the Prehistoric Mountain Site Hayl Ajah at the Inner Flank of Al Jabal Al Kawr. Online. In Athar : Bulletin of Archaeological Research in the Sultanate of Oman. Issue 1, Field Season 2022-2023. 1. vyd. Muscat: Ministry of Heritage and Tourism, Sultanate of Oman, 2025, s. 156-165. ISBN 978-99992-1-097-3.

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MATEICIUCOVÁ, Inna a Maximilian WILDING. First Research Activities at the Prehistoric Mountain Site Hayl Ajah at the Inner Flank of Al Jabal Al Kawr. Online. In \textit{Athar : Bulletin of Archaeological Research in the Sultanate of Oman. Issue 1, Field Season 2022-2023}. 1. vyd. Muscat: Ministry of Heritage and Tourism, Sultanate of Oman, 2025, s.~156-165. ISBN~978-99992-1-097-3.

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