%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Lézine, A. M.
%A Robert, C.
%A Cleuziou, S.
%A Inizan, M. L.
%A Braemer, F.
%A Saliège, J. F.
%A Sylvestre, Florence
%A Tiercelin, J. J.
%A Crassard, R.
%A Méry, S.
%A Charpentier, V.
%A Steimer-Herbet, T.
%T Climate change and human occupation in the Southern Arabian lowlands during the last deglaciation and the Holocene
%D 2010
%L fdi:010052926
%G ENG
%J Global and Planetary Change
%@ 0921-8181
%K paleohydrology ; palynology ; clay mineralogy ; human settlements ; Yemen ; Oman ; Arabian lowlands ; Holocene
%M ISI:000283689700019
%N 4
%P 412-428
%R 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.01.016
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010052926
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2010/12/010052926.pdf
%V 72
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Paleohydrological and archaeological evidence from the Southern and South-Eastern Arabian Peninsula reveal strong relations between phases of human settlements and climate change linked to the Indian monsoon system. During the early to mid-Holocene, large fresh-water lakes extended in the lowland deserts of Ramlat as-Sab'atayn (Yemen) and Wahiba Sands (Oman), which were very similar to those occurring in the North, in the Rub' al-Khali (Saudi Arabia), at that time. Many archaeological sites, characterized by scattered stone artefacts, ostrich-eggshells and bones around hearths, are related to this lacustrine phase, which culminated around 10 000-8000 cal yr B.P. in the lowland deserts before the lakes progressively dried up. The last record of fresh-water bodies' extensions date back 7300 cal yr B.P. at Shabwa (Yemen) and 7500 cal yr B.P. at al-Haid (Oman). Then, fresh-water was probably available only from seasonal run-off from adjacent highlands, where paleolakes persisted into the late Holocene. Dry climate conditions in the inland desert of Yemen during the late Holocene coincide with a phase of intensive human inhabitation as testified by development of irrigation in the piedmontane areas, numerous necropolises of built collective burials and houses.
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