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Bretzke 2022 L ? anthropologie Available online at www sciencedirect com ScienceDirect et e ? galement disponible sur www em-consulte com Original article Archaeological records indicate a complex history of Pleistocene hunter-gatherer societies in Arabia

L ? anthropologie Available online at www sciencedirect com ScienceDirect et e ? galement disponible sur www em-consulte com Original article Archaeological records indicate a complex history of Pleistocene hunter-gatherer societies in Arabia Les archives arche ?ologiques re ?velent une histoire complexe des socie ?te ?s de chasseurs-cueilleurs du Ple ?istocene en Arabie Knut Bretzke a b a Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology University of Tu ?bingen Burgsteige Tu ?bingen Germany b Seminar for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology University of Jena Lo ?bdergraben a Jena Germany ARTICLE INFO Article history Available online July Keywords Paleolithic Arabia Lithic artifacts Pleistocene Hominin dispersals Paleoenvironment ABSTRACT Paleolithic research on the Arabian Peninsula is still in its early stage During the last decade however an increasing number of ?eld projects were conducted and added signi ?cant data to the record This development in addition to substantial paleoenvironmental research on Pleistocene climate and habitat changes creates a promising setting for research on human evolution in arid landscapes Here I provide an overview of the main Paleolithic ?eld projects conducted in Arabia and summarize their results C Elsevier Masson SAS All rights reserved Correspondence at Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology University of Tu ? bingen Burgsteige Tu ? bingen Germany E-mail address knut bretzke uni-tuebingen de https doi org j anthro - C Elsevier Masson SAS All rights reserved C Mots cle ?s Pale ? olithique d ? Arabie Arte ? facts lithiques Ple ? istoce ne Dispersion des hominines Pale ? oenvironnement K Bretzke L ? anthropologie R E ? S U M E ? La recherche sur le pale ? olithique dans la pe ? ninsule arabique en est encore ases de ? buts Cependant au cours de la dernie re de ? cennie un nombre croissant de projets de terrain ont e ? te ? mene ? s et ont permis d ? ajouter des donne ? es importantes aux archives Ce de ? veloppement ajoute ? aux importantes recherches pale ? oenvironnementales sur les changements de climat et d ? habitat au Ple ? istoce ne cre ? e un cadre prometteur pour la recherche sur l ? e ? volution humaine dans les paysages arides Je donne ici un aperc u des principaux projets de terrain sur le Pale ? olithique mene ? en Arabie et je re ? sume leurs re ? sultats C Elsevier Masson SAS Tous droits re ? serve ? s Introduction Research questions addressed to the Paleolithic records of Arabia often circulate around the topic of human dispersal The discussion frequently narrows down to binary models such as inland vs coastal dispersals northern vs southern route or Arabia as corridor vs barrier for human dispersal Arabian Paleolithic research is still in an early stage and hence the limited number of sites and often limited chronometric data makes addressing the expected complexity in the Pleistocene human history a challenging task It can be argued that Paleolithic research in Arabia has recently reached a