Obsidian value and exchange in the southern Red Sea region and its role in the establishment of prehistoric complex society
Clément Ménard
(1)
,
Bernard Gratuze
(2)
,
Amélie Diaz
(3)
,
Edward Keall
(4)
,
Lamya Khalidi
(5, 6)
1
TRACES -
Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés
2 IRAMAT-CEB - IRAMAT - Centre Ernest Babelon
3 ASM - Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes
4 University of Toronto
5 CEPAM - Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age
6 Archéorient - ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien
2 IRAMAT-CEB - IRAMAT - Centre Ernest Babelon
3 ASM - Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes
4 University of Toronto
5 CEPAM - Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age
6 Archéorient - ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien
Clément Ménard
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 171444
- IdHAL : clement-menard
- ORCID : 0000-0003-0354-7661
Bernard Gratuze
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 20429
- IdHAL : bernard-gratuze
- ORCID : 0000-0001-6136-8085
- IdRef : 033805776
Amélie Diaz
- Fonction : Auteur
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- IdRef : 203020332
Résumé
The Red Sea is renowned as a locus of maritime activity during the early historic periods. As a resultof systematic obsidian analyses of sources and artifacts, maritime interaction in South Arabia can now be traced back to the beginning of the Neolithic period. Its increased intensity is echoed in the cultural sphere that eventually formed on opposing shores of the two continents by at least the third millennium B.C. New geochemical, archaeological, and technological data from South Arabia, Ethiopia and Djibouti illustrate the current state of research on Afro-Arabian prehistoric interactions, highlighting variabilities and relationships between two mirroring regions either bound or separated by the Red Sea. While major chronological gaps remain regarding the transition from the LSA to the Neolithic, the study of lithic and faunal material from several sites allows us to note major technological and subsistence shifts that occurred independently in each region, but also early links,such as maritime interaction, that may have affected the nature of the process of neolithization. Finally, we discuss obsidian circulation in light of elements of cultural convergence that make up theRed Sea cultural sphere and that occur sometime in the late 4th millennium B.C.
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Obsidian value and exchange in the southern Red Sea region and its role in the establishment of prehistoric complex society
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new data from South Arabia and the African Horn
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Résumé |
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The Red Sea is renowned as a locus of maritime activity during the early historic periods. As a resultof systematic obsidian analyses of sources and artifacts, maritime interaction in South Arabia can now be traced back to the beginning of the Neolithic period. Its increased intensity is echoed in the cultural sphere that eventually formed on opposing shores of the two continents by at least the third millennium B.C. New geochemical, archaeological, and technological data from South Arabia, Ethiopia and Djibouti illustrate the current state of research on Afro-Arabian prehistoric interactions, highlighting variabilities and relationships between two mirroring regions either bound or separated by the Red Sea. While major chronological gaps remain regarding the transition from the LSA to the Neolithic, the study of lithic and faunal material from several sites allows us to note major technological and subsistence shifts that occurred independently in each region, but also early links,such as maritime interaction, that may have affected the nature of the process of neolithization. Finally, we discuss obsidian circulation in light of elements of cultural convergence that make up theRed Sea cultural sphere and that occur sometime in the late 4th millennium B.C.
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Auteur(s) |
Clément Ménard
1
, Bernard Gratuze
2
, Amélie Diaz
3
, Edward Keall
4
, Lamya Khalidi
5, 6
1
TRACES -
Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés
( 44675 )
- Maison de la Recherche, 5 allée Antonio Machado 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 9
- France
2
IRAMAT-CEB -
IRAMAT - Centre Ernest Babelon
( 238248 )
- Institut de Recherche sur les Archéomatériaux IRAMAT - 3D, Rue de la Férollerie - 45071 Orléans cedex 2
- France
3
ASM -
Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes
( 86793 )
- Route de Mende
Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3
34199 MONTPELLIER Cedex
- France
4
University of Toronto
( 300722 )
- 27 King's College Circle, Toronto M5S 1A1
- Canada
5
CEPAM -
Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age
( 199355 )
- Université Côte d'Azur Pôle universitaire Saint-Jean-d'Angély - SJA3 24, avenue des Diables Bleus 06357 Nice Cedex 4
- France
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Archéorient -
ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien
( 619 )
- Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean-Pouilloux 7 rue Raulin 69365 LYON Cedex 07
- France
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Date de production/écriture |
2015
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Invité |
Non
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Audience |
Internationale
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Actes |
Non
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Titre du congrès |
80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology
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Date début congrès |
2015-04-15
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Date fin congrès |
2015-04-19
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San Francisco, Californ
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États-Unis
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Obsidian exchange, prehistoric society, population establishment, South Arabia, African Horn
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