Browsing Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR by Author "Parton, Ash"
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The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia
Scerri, Eleanor M. L.; Frouin, Marine; Breeze, Paul S.; Armitage, Simon James; Candy, Ian; Groucutt, Huw S.; Drake, Nick; Parton, Ash; White, Tom S.; Alsharekh, Abdullah; Petraglia, Michael D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The Arabian Peninsula is a critical geographic landmass situated between Africa and the rest of Eurasia. Climatic shifts across the Pleistocene periodically produced wetter conditions in Arabia, dramatically altering the ... -
Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years
Groucutt, Huw S.; White, Tom S.; Scerri, Eleanor M. L.; Andrieux, Eric; Clark-Wilson, Richard; Breeze, Paul S.; Armitage, Simon James; Stewart, Mathew; Drake, Nick; Louys, Julien; Price, Gilbert J.; Duval, Mathieu; Parton, Ash; Candy, Ian; Carleton, W. Christopher; Shipton, Ceri; Jennings, Richard P.; Zahir, Muhammad; Blinkhorn, James; Blockley, Simon; Al-Omari, Abdulaziz; Alsharekh, Abdullah M.; Petraglia, Michael D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Pleistocene hominin dispersals out of, and back into, Africa necessarily involved traversing the diverse and often challenging environments of Southwest Asia1,2,3,4. Archaeological and palaeontological records from the ... -
Palaeoenvironmental and sea level changes during the Holocene in Eastern Saudi Arabia and their implications for Neolithic populations
Parker, Adrian; Morley, Mike W.; Armitage, Simon James; Engel, Max; Parton, Ash; Preston, Gareth W.; Russ, Hannah; Drechsler, Philipp (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper presents the key findings of a multidisciplinary study investigating the nature and timing of coastal landscape evolution in eastern Saudi Arabia during the Holocene. To date, most sea level reconstructions for ...