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Bony labyrinth taxonomic identification and long-term evolution of livestock in the Southwest and Central Asia

Abstract Southwest and Central Asia were pivotal regions for the domestication and dispersal of domestic herbivores. Here we investigate long-term variation in bony labyrinth morphology of domestic bovids (sheep, goats and cattle) across the last 10 000 years. We focused on the o...

Settlement Dynamics and Coastal Change in the Arabian Gulf Neolithic: Wādī aḍ‐Ḍubayʿān (Qatar)

ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of archaeological investigations (2009–2014) at Wādī aḍ‐Ḍubayʿān (QNHER 141), a stratified littoral Neolithic site on the northwestern coast of Qatar. The site documents occupation from the late sixth to the late fourth millennium BCE , co...

Settlement and Landscape Transformations in the Khaybar Oasis From Late Antiquity to the Late Islamic Period

ABSTRACT Archaeological survey and targeted soundings by the Khaybar Longue Durée Archaeological Project ( Khaybar LDAP ) have provided the opportunity to reconstruct a first overview of settlement dynamics, land use and socioeconomic organisation from the late pre‐Islamic period...