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Science Advances, 2023
Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing collaboration of... more Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing collaboration of archaeologists, historians, and paleo-scientists. However, many studies still lack interdisciplinarity and overlook incompatibilities in spatiotemporal scaling of environmental and societal data and their uncertainties. Here, we argue for a strengthened commitment to collaborative work and introduce the "dahliagram" as a tool to analyze and visualize quantitative and qualitative knowledge from diverse disciplinary sources and epistemological backgrounds. On the basis of regional cases of past human mobility in eastern Africa, Inner Eurasia, and the North Atlantic, we develop three dahliagrams that illustrate pull and push factors underlying key phases of population movement across different geographical scales and over contrasting periods of time since the end of the last Ice Age. Agnostic to analytical units, dahliagrams offer an effective tool for interdisciplinary investigation, visualization, and communication of complex human-environmental interactions at a diversity of spatiotemporal scales.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018
Introduction. Living in arid environments from prehistoric times to the present day: approaches t... more Introduction. Living in arid environments from prehistoric times to the present day: approaches to the study of refugia and oases
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2013
Tell Hamoukar’s Southern Extension, occupied during the late Chalcolithic 1-2 period and located ... more Tell Hamoukar’s Southern Extension, occupied during the late Chalcolithic 1-2 period and located in northern Mesopotamia, presents a unique early household craft-manufacturing site at a scale never before seen for the period. The large quantities of obsidian on the site, collected through both systematic survey and excavation, are unattested for this period at such distances from available source zones. In addition to the large quantities of obsidian collected, the form in which this worked obsidian was recovered attests to a major obsidian production economy that is almost entirely dependent on this stone resource for tool production. This paper discusses the nature of the Southern Extension occupation and its possible role in obsidian circulation in this period through geochemical source analyses of a sample of the worked obsidian excavated as well as through a preliminary morpho-technological study of its residents’ lithic industry.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Oct 1, 2016
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jun 1, 2016
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jun 14, 2018
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2010
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Dec 15, 2020
Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020
Paléorient, 2016
L’étude des échanges d’obsidienne permet d’obtenir une meilleure connaissance des systèmes d’inte... more L’étude des échanges d’obsidienne permet d’obtenir une meilleure connaissance des systèmes d’interaction entre les villages sédentaires au début du Néolithique au Proche-Orient. Le modèle d’échange d’obsidienne, down-the-line, a dominé pour expliquer la diffusion de l’obsidienne entre les villages néolithiques. Cependant, l’information disponible sur la quantité d’obsidienne présente dans les sites, les simulations mathématiques de cette distribution et l’observation des parallèles ethnographiques suggèrent l’existence d’un modèle d’échange plus complexe au cours de cette période. Dans cet article, nous utilisons l’analyse de régression pour étudier les données archéologiques et proposer l’existence d’un réseau complexe, testé par modélisation mathématique, pour expliquer les échanges d’obsidienne. À l’appui des données ethnographiques et archéologiques, on discute des implications d’ordre social et économique de ce réseau complexe d’échanges entre les villages néolithiques.
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2015
In this paper, we explore the conditions that led to the origins and development of the Near East... more In this paper, we explore the conditions that led to the origins and development of the Near Eastern Neolithic using mathematical modelling of obsidian exchange. The analysis presented expands on previous research, which established that the down-the-line model could not explain long-distance obsidian distribution across the Near East during this period. Drawing from outcomes of new simulations and their comparison with archaeological data, we provide results that illuminate the presence of complex networks of interaction among the earliest farming societies. We explore a network prototype of obsidian exchange with distant links which replicates the long-distance movement of ideas, goods and people during the Early Neolithic. Our results support the idea that during the first (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A) and second (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) phases of the Early Neolithic, the complexity of obsidian exchange networks gradually increased. We propose then a refined model (the optimized dis...
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2013
Comptes Rendus. Géoscience
Presses universitaires du Midi eBooks, 2021
International audienc
Until recently, the western Arabian Peninsula has had an enigmatic role in the large-scale prehis... more Until recently, the western Arabian Peninsula has had an enigmatic role in the large-scale prehistoric exchange networks of the greater ancient Near East. New geological and archaeological data recovered from obsidian-rich zones as well as sites in south-west Arabia and beyond, have begun to elucidate the region’s unprecedented position as a regional and interregional supplier and consumer of obsidian as early as the sixth millennium BC. This paper reviews recent data on obsidian sourcing in Arabia as well as new source matches to archaeological sites in the major source zone supplying obsidian across the region, namely the Dhamār highland plains of Yemen, and discusses the results within the context of previous obsidian research. These data offer new perspectives that will allow us to broaden our understanding of the development of ancient Near Eastern societies over time, to include south-west Arabia. Furthermore, these new data provide us with a preliminary diachronic view of the...
Science Advances, 2023
Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing collaboration of... more Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing collaboration of archaeologists, historians, and paleo-scientists. However, many studies still lack interdisciplinarity and overlook incompatibilities in spatiotemporal scaling of environmental and societal data and their uncertainties. Here, we argue for a strengthened commitment to collaborative work and introduce the "dahliagram" as a tool to analyze and visualize quantitative and qualitative knowledge from diverse disciplinary sources and epistemological backgrounds. On the basis of regional cases of past human mobility in eastern Africa, Inner Eurasia, and the North Atlantic, we develop three dahliagrams that illustrate pull and push factors underlying key phases of population movement across different geographical scales and over contrasting periods of time since the end of the last Ice Age. Agnostic to analytical units, dahliagrams offer an effective tool for interdisciplinary investigation, visualization, and communication of complex human-environmental interactions at a diversity of spatiotemporal scales.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018
Introduction. Living in arid environments from prehistoric times to the present day: approaches t... more Introduction. Living in arid environments from prehistoric times to the present day: approaches to the study of refugia and oases
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2013
Tell Hamoukar’s Southern Extension, occupied during the late Chalcolithic 1-2 period and located ... more Tell Hamoukar’s Southern Extension, occupied during the late Chalcolithic 1-2 period and located in northern Mesopotamia, presents a unique early household craft-manufacturing site at a scale never before seen for the period. The large quantities of obsidian on the site, collected through both systematic survey and excavation, are unattested for this period at such distances from available source zones. In addition to the large quantities of obsidian collected, the form in which this worked obsidian was recovered attests to a major obsidian production economy that is almost entirely dependent on this stone resource for tool production. This paper discusses the nature of the Southern Extension occupation and its possible role in obsidian circulation in this period through geochemical source analyses of a sample of the worked obsidian excavated as well as through a preliminary morpho-technological study of its residents’ lithic industry.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Oct 1, 2016
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jun 1, 2016
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jun 14, 2018
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2010
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Dec 15, 2020
Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020
Paléorient, 2016
L’étude des échanges d’obsidienne permet d’obtenir une meilleure connaissance des systèmes d’inte... more L’étude des échanges d’obsidienne permet d’obtenir une meilleure connaissance des systèmes d’interaction entre les villages sédentaires au début du Néolithique au Proche-Orient. Le modèle d’échange d’obsidienne, down-the-line, a dominé pour expliquer la diffusion de l’obsidienne entre les villages néolithiques. Cependant, l’information disponible sur la quantité d’obsidienne présente dans les sites, les simulations mathématiques de cette distribution et l’observation des parallèles ethnographiques suggèrent l’existence d’un modèle d’échange plus complexe au cours de cette période. Dans cet article, nous utilisons l’analyse de régression pour étudier les données archéologiques et proposer l’existence d’un réseau complexe, testé par modélisation mathématique, pour expliquer les échanges d’obsidienne. À l’appui des données ethnographiques et archéologiques, on discute des implications d’ordre social et économique de ce réseau complexe d’échanges entre les villages néolithiques.
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2015
In this paper, we explore the conditions that led to the origins and development of the Near East... more In this paper, we explore the conditions that led to the origins and development of the Near Eastern Neolithic using mathematical modelling of obsidian exchange. The analysis presented expands on previous research, which established that the down-the-line model could not explain long-distance obsidian distribution across the Near East during this period. Drawing from outcomes of new simulations and their comparison with archaeological data, we provide results that illuminate the presence of complex networks of interaction among the earliest farming societies. We explore a network prototype of obsidian exchange with distant links which replicates the long-distance movement of ideas, goods and people during the Early Neolithic. Our results support the idea that during the first (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A) and second (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) phases of the Early Neolithic, the complexity of obsidian exchange networks gradually increased. We propose then a refined model (the optimized dis...
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2013
Comptes Rendus. Géoscience
Presses universitaires du Midi eBooks, 2021
International audienc
Until recently, the western Arabian Peninsula has had an enigmatic role in the large-scale prehis... more Until recently, the western Arabian Peninsula has had an enigmatic role in the large-scale prehistoric exchange networks of the greater ancient Near East. New geological and archaeological data recovered from obsidian-rich zones as well as sites in south-west Arabia and beyond, have begun to elucidate the region’s unprecedented position as a regional and interregional supplier and consumer of obsidian as early as the sixth millennium BC. This paper reviews recent data on obsidian sourcing in Arabia as well as new source matches to archaeological sites in the major source zone supplying obsidian across the region, namely the Dhamār highland plains of Yemen, and discusses the results within the context of previous obsidian research. These data offer new perspectives that will allow us to broaden our understanding of the development of ancient Near Eastern societies over time, to include south-west Arabia. Furthermore, these new data provide us with a preliminary diachronic view of the...
Colloque ECLIPSE II Paris, Oct. 15-16, 2007
Le Monde, Idées, Jul 30, 2015
New York Times, The Opinion Pages, Jun 26, 2015
Assafir /السفير June 29 2015. Translated from the New York Times by Assafir. [On line]
Yemen Today / "اليمن اليوم", Jun 28, 2015
Khabar News Agency / "خبر" , Jun 28, 2015
Rencontres internationales d’archéologie et d’histoire d’Antibes (France) Tuesday 10 October to T... more Rencontres internationales d’archéologie et d’histoire d’Antibes (France)
Tuesday 10 October to Thursday 12 October 2017
From refugia to oases: living in arid environments from prehistoric times to the present day
Organizing committee
Academic: L. Purdue, J. Charbonnier, L. Khalidi (University Côte d’Azur, CNRS, CEPAM, France)
Administrative: A.-M. Gomez and M. Benou (University Côte d’Azur, CNRS, CEPAM, France)
The history of human occupation in arid environments has always been inextricably tied to the history of water. From prehistory to now, populations have continuously occupied isolated spaces in proximity to watering holes, or refugia, later modifying their environments in the form of artificial niches, or oases. The objective of this conference is to investigate the natural formation of these spaces, followed by their construction and evolution as socio-economic, political and agricultural entities. The theme of this conference contributes directly to current debates on the preservation and integrated exploitation of this continually changing human heritage.
We are pleased to invite you to participate to the session “Advances in tracing the origin and ci... more We are pleased to invite you to participate to the session “Advances in tracing the origin and circulationof mineral-based prestige items in the prehistory of the Middle East and itsadjacent regions”. This session is part of the “Raw materials exploitation in Prehistory: sourcing, processing and distribution” symposium, to be held 10th-12th of March 2016 in Faro, Portugal.
Please note that the deadline for proposals will expire next October 15th, 2015.
You can find more information about submission on the symposium webpage http://www.rawmaterials2016.com/
From Refugia to Oases: living in arid environments from prehistoric times to the present day / Des refuges aux oasis: vivre en milieu aride de la Préhistoire à aujourd'hui. L. Purdue, J. Charbonnier and L. Khalidi (eds.), 2018