The Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia

1. Tracking the Origin and Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia, Jeffrey I. Rose and Michael D. PetragliaPart I. Quaternary Environments and Demographic Response2. The Red Sea, Coastal Landscapes, and Hominin dispersals, Geoff Bailey3. Pleistocene Climate Change in Arabia: Developing a Framework for Hominin Dispersal over the Last 350 ka, Adrian G. Parker4. Environment and Long-term Population Trends in Southwest Arabia, Tony J. WilkinsonPart II. Genetics and Migration5. Mitochondrial DNA Structure of Yemeni Population: Regional Differences and the Implications for Different Migratory Contributions, Jakub Rídl, Christopher M. Edens, Viktor Cerný6. The Arabian Peninsula: Gate for Human Migrations Out of Africa or Cul-de-sac? A Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeographic Perspective, Vicente M. Cabrera, Khaled K. Abu-Amero, José M. Larruga, and Ana M. González7. Bayesian coalescent inference from mitochondrial DNA variation of the colonization time of Arabia by the hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas hamadryas), Carlos A. FernandesPart III. Pleistocene Archaeology8. Acheulean Landscapes and Large Cutting Tool Assemblages in the Arabian Peninsula, Michael D. Petraglia, Nick Drake and Abdullah Alsharekh9. A Middle Paleolithic Assemblage from Jebel Barakah, Coastal Abu Dhabi Emirate, Ghanim Wahida, Walid Yasin Al-Tikriti, Mark J. Beech, and Ali Al Meqbali10. Paleolithic stone tool assemblages from Sharjah and Ras al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates, Julie Scott-Jackson, William Scott-Jackson, and Jeffrey I. Rose11. The Central Oman Palaeolithic Survey: Recent research in Southern Arabia and reflection on the prehistoric evidence, Reto Jagher12. The Middle Paleolithic of Arabia: The View from the Hadramawt Region, Yemen, Rémy Crassard13. The 'Upper Paleolithic' of South Arabia,Jeffrey I. Rose and Vitaly I. Usik14. The Late Pleistocene of Arabia in Relation to the Levant, Lisa A. MaherPart IV. The Early Holocene15. The Holocene (Re-)Occupation of Eastern Arabia, Hans-Peter

Michael D. Petraglia was born in New York in 1960. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge. Over the past 25 years, he has conducted archaeological research in India, Arabia, Europe and North America. He is co-editor of the book, The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia (Springer).



Jeffrey Ian Rose was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1975. Over the past 20 years, he has conducted fieldwork in prehistoric archaeology throughout North America, Europe, and Arabia. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Oxford Brookes University and runs an ongoing archaeological research project in the Sultanate of Oman.

From the reviews:

"This final published set expands significantly beyond that initial purpose to add significant context to what is admittedly still a largely Palaeolithic focus. ... The quality of the papers contained within the volume is very high indeed. ... This volume provides an excellent statement of our current state of knowledge of the Pleistocene and Early Holocene occupation of the Arabian Peninsula ... also setting the scene for future research to address the new-found archaeological complexity of this region." (Anthony Sinclair, Bulletin of the Society for Arabian Studies, April, 2010)

"This latest volume in Springer's 'Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology' series is essentially a compilation of discrete research papers. Collectively, they provide a comprehensive, albeit repetitious, review of Arabian prehistory. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Archaeology and anthropology collections serving graduate students and researchers/faculty." (D. A. Brass, Choice, Vol. 47 (11), July, 2010)