An early MIS 3 pluvial phase in Southeast Arabia: Climatic and archaeological implications

Quaternary International

Volumn 300, Issue , 2013, Pages 62-74

  Parton, Ash ^a   Farrant, Andrew R ^b   Leng, Melanie J ^b   Schwenninger, Jean Luc ^a   Rose, Jeffrey I ^c   Uerpmann, Hans Peter ^d   Parker, Adrian G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ARIDITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

OMAN; OMAN MOUNTAINS; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84878964605     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.02.016     Document Type: Article

References (82)

1. Adamiec G., Aitken M.J. Dose-rate conversion factors: new data. Ancient TL 1998, 16:37-50.
2. 2. Nature 2002, 415:159-162.
3. Amirkhanov H.A. Stone Age of South Arabia 2006, Nauka, Moscow, (in Russian).
4. An F., Ma H., Wei H., Lai Z. Distinguishing aeolian signature from lacustrine sediments of the Qaidam Basin in northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its palaeoclimatic implications. Aeolian Research 2012, 4:17-30.
5. Armitage S.J., Jasim S.A., Marks A.E., Parker A.G., Usik V.I., Uerpmann The southern route "out of Africa": evidence for an early expansion of modern humans into Arabia. Science 2011, 331(6016):453-456.
6. Atkinson O.A.C., Thomas D.S.G., Goudie A.S., Bailey R.M. Late Quaternary chronology of major dune ridge development in the northeast Rub' al-Khali, United Arab Emirates. Quaternary Research 2011, 76(1):93-105.
7. Besler H., Ritter M. Environmental histories of some Arabian Sands (Oman, United Arab Emirates) deduced from extended sedimentary analysis. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 2009, 53(4):487-504.
8. Blechschmidt I., Matter A., Preusser F., Rieke-Zapp D. Monsoon triggered formation of Quaternary alluvial megafans in the interior of Oman. Geomorphology 2009, 110:128-137.
9. Boyle J.F. Inorganic geochemical methods in palaeolimnology. Physical and Geochemical Methods 2001, vol. 2:83-141. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. W.M. Last, J.P. Smol (Eds.).
10. Brandt S., Fisher E., Hildebrand E., Hildebrand E.A., Vogelsang R., Ambrose S.H., Lesur J., Wang H. Early MIS 3 occupation of Mochena Borago Rockshelter, Southwest Ethiopian Highlands: implications for Late Pleistocene archaeology, paleoenvironments and modern human dispersals. Quaternary International 2012, 274:38-54.
11. Burns S., Matter A., Frank N., Mangini A. Speleothem-based paleoclimate record from northern Oman. Geology 1998, 26(6):499-502.
12. Burns S., Fleitmann D., Matter A., Neff U., Mangini A. Speleothem evidence from Oman for continental pluvial events during interglacial periods. Geology 2001, 29(7):623-626.
13. Burns S.J. Indian Ocean climate and an absolute chronology over Dansgaard/Oeschger events 9 to 13. Science 2003, 301(5638):1365-1367.
14. Clark I.D., Fontes J.-C. Paleoclimatic reconstruction in northern Oman based on carbonates from hyperalkaline groundwaters. Quaternary Research 1990, 33:320-336.
15. Clark G.A., Schuldenrein J., Donaldson M.L., Schwarcz P., Rink W.J., Fish S.K. Chronostratigraphic contexts of Middle Paleolithic horizons at the 'Ain Difla rockshelter (WHS 634), west-central Jordan. The Prehistory of Jordan, II. Perspectives from 1997 (Berlin, Ex Oriente) 1997, 77-100. H.G.K. Gebel, Z. Kafafi, G.O. Rollefson (Eds.).
16. Clemens S., Prell W.L. A350,000 year summer-monsoon multi-proxy stack from the Owen Ridge, Northern Arabian Sea. Marine Geology 2003, 201:35-51.
17. Dean W.E. Determination of carbonate and organic matter in calcareous sediments and sedimentary rocks by loss on ignition: comparison with other methods. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 1974, 44:242-248.
18. Dearing J. Magnetic susceptibility. Environmental Magnetism: a Practical Guide 1999, 35-63. Quaternary Research Association, London, Technical Guide 6. J. Walden, F. Oldfield, J. Smith (Eds.).
19. Delagnes A., Tribolo C., Bertran P., Brenet M., Crassard R., Jaubert J., Khalidi L., Mercier N., Nomade S., Peigne S., Sitzia L., Tournepiche J.-F., Al-Halibi M., Al-Mosabi A., Macciarelli R. Inland human settlement in southern Arabia 55,000 years ago: new evidence from the Wadi Surdud Middle Paleolithic site complex, western Yemen. Journal of Human Evolution 2012, 63(3):452-474.
20. Des Combes H.J., Caulet J.P., Tribovillard N. Monitoring the variations of the Socotra upwelling system during the last 250 kyr: a biogenic and geochemical approach. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2005, 223:243-259.
21. Drechsler P. Environmental conditions and environmental changes in the Jebel al-Buhais area: the history of an archaeological landscape. The Natural Environment of Jebel Al-Buhais: Past and Present 2008, 17-43. Kerns Verlag, Tübingen. H.-P. Uerpmann, M. Uerpmann, S.A. Jasim (Eds.).
22. Enzel Y., Ely L.L., Mishra S., Ramesh R., Amit R., Lazar B., Rajaguru S.N., Baker V.R., Sandler A. High-resolution Holocene environmental changes in the Thar Desert, northwestern India. Science 1999, 284(5411):125-128.
23. Eugster H.P., Kelts K. Lacustrine chemical sediments. Chemical Sediments and Geomorphology: Precipitates and Residua in the Near-surface Environment 1983, 321-368. Academic Press Inc., London. A.S. Goudie, K. Pye (Eds.).
24. Farrant, A., Arkley, S.L.B., Ellison, R.A., Styles, M.T., Phillips, E.R., 2006. Geology of the Al Dhaid 1:100 000 Map Sheet, 100-2. United Arab Emirates, pp. 1-61.
25. Farrant A.R., Ellison R.A., Thomas R.J., Pharaoh T.C., Newell A.J., Goodenough K.M., Lee J.R., Knox R.O. The geology and geophysics of the United Arab Emirates. Geology of the Western and Central United Arab Emirates 2012, vol. 6. British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, 371pp.
26. Fernandes V., Alshamali F., Alves M., Costa M.D., Perelra J.B., Silva N.M., Cherni L., Harich N., Cerny V., Soares P., Richards M.B., Perelra L. The Arabian cradle: mitochondrial relicts of the first steps along the southern route out of Africa. The American Journal of Human Genetics 2012, 90(2):347-355.
27. Fleitmann D., Matter A. The speleothem record of climate variability in Southern Arabia. Comptes Rendus - Geoscience 2009, 341:633-642.
28. Fleitmann D., Burns S.J., Neff U., Mangini A., Matter A. Changing moisture sources over the last 330,000 years in Northern Oman from fluid-inclusion evidence in speleothems. Quaternary Research 2003, 60(2):223-232.
29. Fleitmann D., Burns S.J., Pekala M., Mangini A., Al-Subbary A., Al-Aowah M., Kramers J., Matter A. Holocene and Pleistocene pluvial periods in Yemen, southern Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews 2011, 30:783-787.
30. Garrard A., Harvey C., Switzer V. Environment and settlement during the upper Pleistocene and Holocene at Jubba in the Great Nefud, Northern Arabia, Riyadh. Atlal 1981, 5:137-148.
31. Glennie K., Singhvi A. Event stratigraphy, paleoenvironment and chronology of SE Arabian deserts. Quaternary Science Reviews 2002, 21:853-869.
32. Govil P., Naidu P.D. Evaporation-precipitation changes in the eastern Arabian Sea for the last 68 ka: implications on monsoon variability. Paleoceanography 2010, 25:PA1210. 11.
33. Groucutt H.S., Petraglia M.D. The prehistory of the Arabian Peninsula: deserts, dispersals and demography. Evolutionary Anthropology 2012, 21(3):113-125.
34. Heiri O., Lotter A.F., Lemcke G. Loss on ignition as a method for estimating organic and carbonate content in sediments: reproducibility and comparability of results. Journal of Paleolimnology 2001, 25:101-110.
35. Higginson M., Altabet M.A., Murray D.W., Murray R.W., Herbert T.D. Geochemical evidence for abrupt changes in relative strength of the Arabian monsoons during a stadial/interstadial climate transition. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2004, 68:3807-3826.
36. Hilbert Y., Rose J.I., Roberts R. Late Palaeolithic core-reduction strategies in Dhofar, Oman. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 2012, 42.
37. Holmes J.A., Street-Perrott F.A., Allen M.J., Fothergill P.A., Harkness D.D., Kroon D., Perrott R.A. Holocene palaeolimnology of Kajemarum Oasis, Northern Nigeria: an isotopic study of ostracods, bulk carbonate and organic carbon. Journal of the Geological Society 1997, 154:311-319.
38. Huntsman-Mapila P., Ringrose S., Mackay A.W., Downey W.S., Modisi M., Coetzee S.H., Tiercelin J.-J., Kampunzu A.B., Vanderpost C. Use of the geochemical and biological sedimentary record in establishing palaeo-environments and climate change in the Lake Ngami basin, NW Botswana. Quaternary International 2006, 148:51-64.
39. Ivanochko, T.S., 2005. Sub-orbital variations in the intensity of the Arabian Sea monsoon. Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh. Available at: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/760.
40. Kessarkar P., Purnachandra Rao V., Naqvi S.W.A., Chivas A.R., Saino T. Fluctuations in productivity and denitrification in the southeastern Arabian Sea during the Late Quaternary. Current Science 2010, 99:485-491.
41. Krbetschek M.R. The Natural Environment of Jebel al-Buhais: Past and Present 2008, 43-45. Kerns Verlag, Tübingen. H.-P. Uerpmann, S.A. Jasim (Eds.).
42. Lamb A.L., Leng M.J., Lamb H.F., Mohammed M.U. A9000-year oxygen and carbon isotope record of hydrological change in a small Ethiopian crater lake. The Holocene 2000, 10:167-177.
43. Leng M.J., Metcalfe S.E., Davies S.J. Investigating Late Holocene climate variability in central Mexico using carbon isotope ratios in organic materials and oxygen isotope ratios from diatom silica within lacustrine sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology 2005, 34:413-431.
44. Leng M.J., Jones M.D., Frogley M.R., Eastwood W.J., Kendrick C.P., Roberts C.N. Detrital carbonate influences on bulk oxygen and carbon isotope composition of lacustrine sediments from the Mediterranean. Global and Planetary Change 2009, 71(3-4):175-182.
45. Leuschner D., Sirocko F. Orbital insolation forcing of the Indian Monsoon - a motor for global climate changes?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2003, 197:83-95.
46. Macklin S., Ellison R.A., Manning J., Farrant A.R., Lorenti L. Engineering geological characterisation of the Barzaman Formation, with reference to coastal Dubai, UAE. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 2012, 71:1-19.
47. Prehistory and Paleoenvironments of the Central Negev, Israel. The Avdat/Aqev Area, Part 3 1983, vol. III. Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas. A.E. Marks (Ed.).
48. McClure H. Radiocarbon chronology of late Quaternary lakes in the Arabian Desert. Nature 1976, 263:755-756.
49. McClure, H.A., 1984. Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the Rub' al-Khali. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of London.
50. Mejdahl V. Thermoluminescence dating: beta-dose attenuation in quartz grains. Archaeometry 1979, 21:61-72.
51. Meyers P.A. Preservation of source identification of sedimentary organic matter during and after deposition. Chemical Geology 1994, 114:289-302.
52. Mischke S., Kramer M., Zhang C., Shang H., Herzschuh U., Erzinger J. Reduced early Holocene moisture availability in the Bayan Har Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, inferred from a multi-proxy lake record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2008, 267:59-76.
53. McLaren S.J., Al-Juaidi F., Bateman M.D., Millington A.C. First evidence for episodic flooding events in the arid interior of central Saudi Arabia over the last 60ka. Journal of Quaternary Science 2008, 24:198-207.
54. Murray A.S., Wintle A.G. Luminescence dating of quartz using an improved single-aliquot regenerative-dose protocol. Radiation Measurements 2000, 32:57-73.
55. Parker A.G., Goudie A.S., Stokes S., White K., Hodson M.J., Manning M., Kennet D. Arecord of Holocene climate change from lake geochemical analyses in southeastern Arabia. Quaternary Research 2006, 66:465-476.
56. Parker A.G. Pleistocene climate change in Arabia: developing a framework for Hominin dispersal over the last 350 ka. The Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia 2009, 39-51. Springer, London. M.D. Petraglia, J.I. Rose (Eds.).
57. Petraglia M.D., Alsharekh A.M., Crassard R., Drake N.A., Groucutt H., Parker A.G., Roberts R. Middle Paleolithic occupation on a Marine Isotope Stage 5 lakeshore in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews 2011, 30:1555-1559.
58. Prell W.L., Kutzbach J.E. Sensitivity of the Indian monsoon to forcing parameters and implications for its evolution. Nature 1992, 360:647-652.
59. Prescott J.R., Hutton J.T. Cosmic ray contributions to dose rates for luminescence and ESR dating: large depths and long-term time variations. Radiation Measurements 1994, 23:497-500.
60. Preston G.W., Parker A.G., Walkington H., Leng M.J., Hodson M.J. From nomadic herder-hunters to sedentary farmers: the relationship between climate change and ancient subsistence strategies in south-eastern Arabia. Journal of Arid Environments 2011, 86:122-130.
61. Preusser F., Radies D., Matter A. A 160,000-year record of dune development and atmospheric circulation in southern Arabia. Science 2002, 296:2018-2020.
62. Preusser F. Chronology of the impact of Quaternary climate change on continental environments in the Arabian Peninsula. Comptes Rendus, Geoscience 2009, 341:621-632.
63. Radies D., Preusser F., Matter A., Mange M. Eustatic and climatic controls on the development of the Wahiba Sand Sea, Sultanate of Oman. Sedimentology 2004, 51:1359-1385.
64. Rhodes E.J., Schwenninger J.-L. Dose rates and radioisotope concentrations in the concrete calibration blocks at Oxford. Ancient TL 2007, 25:5-8.
65. Richter D., Schroeder H.B., Rink W.J., Julig P.J., Schwarcz H.P. The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Levant and new thermoluminescence dates for a Late Mousterian assemblage from Jerf Al-Ajla Cave (Syria). Paléorient 2001, 27(2):29-46.
66. Rose J.I. New light on human prehistory in the Arabo-Persian Gulf Oasis. Current Anthropology 2010, 51:849-883.
67. Rose J.I., Usik V.I. The "Upper Palaeolithic" of South Arabia. The Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia 2009, 169-185. Springer, London. M.D. Petraglia, J.I. Rose (Eds.).
68. Rose J.I., Usik V.I., Marks A.E., Hilbert Y.H., Galletti C.S., Parton A., Geiling J.M., Cerny V., Morley M.W., Roberts R.G. The Nubian complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia. PLoS ONE 2011, 6(11):1-22.
69. Rosenberg T.M., Preusser F., Fleitmann D., Schwalb A., Penkman K., Schmid T.W., Al-Shanti M.A., Kadi K., Matter A. Humid periods in southern Arabia Windows of opportunity for modern human dispersal. Geology 2011, 39:1115-1118.
70. Rosenberg T., Preusser F., Blechschmidt I., Fleitmann D., Jagher R., Matter A. Late Pleistocene palaeolake in the interior of Oman: a potential key area for the dispersal of anatomically modern humans out-of-Africa?. Journal of Quaternary Science 2012, 27:13-16.
71. Sakai K., Peltier W. Adynamical systems model of the Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillation and the origin of the Bond cycle. Journal of Climate 1999, 12:2238-2255.
72. Sanlaville P. Changements climatiques dans la peninsule arabique durant le pleistocene superieur et l'holocene. Paleorient 1992, 18:5-27.
73. Schulz E., Whitney J.W. Upper Pleistocene and Holocene lakes in the An Nafud, Saudi Arabia. Hydrobiologia 1986, 143:175-190.
74. Schulz H.E.A., von Rad U., Erlenkeusser H. Correlation between Arabian Sea and Greenland climate oscillations of the past 110,000 years. Nature 1998, 393:54-57.
75. Sinha R., Smykatz-Kloss W., Stüben D., Harrison S.P., Berner Z., Kramar U. Late Quaternary palaeoclimatic reconstruction from the lacustrine sediments of the Sambhar playa core, Thar Desert margin, India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2006, 233:252-270.
76. Stokes S., Bray H.E. Late Pleistocene eolian history of the Liwa region, Arabian Peninsula. Geological Society of America Bulletin 2005, 117:1466-1480.
77. Styles M., Ellison R., Arkley S., Crowley Q.G., Farrant A.R., Goodenough K.M., McKervey J., Pharaoh T., Phillips E., Schofield D., Thomas R.J. The geology and geophysics of the United Arab Emirates. Geology 2006, vol. 1. British Geological Survey.
78. Talbot M.R. Areview of paleohydrological interpretation of carbon and oxygen isotopic ratios in primary lacustrine carbonates. Chemical Geology 1990, 80:261-279.
79. Usik V.E., Rose J.I., Hilbert Y.H., Van-Peer P.E., Marks A.E. Nubian complex reduction strategies in Dhofar, Southern Oman. Quaternary International 2013, 300:244-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.08.2111.
80. Whitney J.W. Erosional History and Surficial Geology of Western Saudi Arabia 1983, Technical record USGS-TR-04-1, Saudi Arabian Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources, pp. 1-90.
81. Woods W., Imes J. How wet is wet? Precipitation constraints on late Quaternary climate in the southern Arabian Peninsula. Journal of Hydrology 1995, 164:263-268.
82. Zimmerman D.W. Thermoluminescent dating using fine grains from pottery. Archaeometry 1971, 13:29-50.