Stone Tools of Prehistoric Arabia: Papers from the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 21 July 2019

Contents

Guidelines and Transliteration

Editors’ Foreword

New Palaeolithic sites around Al-Badʾ, north-western Saudi Arabia – Rémy Crassard, Yamandú H. Hilbert, Guillaume Charloux , Samer A. Sahlah & Waleed A. Badaiwi

The Palaeolithic record from the Central Region of the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates – Knut Bretzke

Middle and Late Pleistocene lithic technology from the region of Dûmat al-Jandal, northern Saudi Arabia – Yamandú H. Hilbert & Rémy Crassard

Lower and Middle Paleolithic Sites from the Rufa Graben central Saudi Arabia – Rémy Crassard & Yamandú H. Hilbert

The net of Nubian core and foldability: an attempt to individualize the lithic technology in the Palaeolithic – Amir Beshkani

Living and moving in Maitan: Neolithic settlements and regional exchanges in the southern Rub’ al-Khali (Sultanate of Oman) – Maria Pia Maiorano, Mohammed Al Kindi, Vincent Charpentier, Jérémie Vosges, Dominique Gommery, Grégor Marchand, Ahmed Qatan, Federico Borgi & Martin Pickford

Lithics of a cache-like feature at the high-elevation polje Hayl Al-Ajah inside the Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar of northern Oman  – Inna Mateiciucová, Maximilian Wilding, Denis Štefanisko & Gerhard Trnka

Some remarks on the lithic assemblage from a coastal Ubaid-related settlement site on Delma Island, Abu Dhabi emirate, United Arab Emirates – Heiko Kallweit & Mark Jonathan Beech

The chipped stone assemblage from Hili 8 — Early Bronze Age innovation vs. Neolithic tradition – Norbert Buchinger, Marc Händel, Peter Magee, Ali Al Meqbali & Abdulla Al Kaabi

Bronze Age microliths at Saruq al-Hadid, Dubai – Mark W. Moore, Lloyd Weeks, Charlotte M. Cable, Yaaqoub Youssef Al-Ali, Mansour Boraik & Hassan Zein

A Hafit-period stone tool assemblage from Al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman – Ullrich Ochs

The lithic industry from the Iron Age coastal settlement HAS1 (Inqitat), southern Oman – Yamandú H. Hilbert & Silvia Lischi