Large Flake Acheulean in the Nefud Desert of Northern Arabia CERI SHIPTON School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA;
[email protected] ASH PARTON School of Archaeology, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM;
[email protected] PAUL BREEZE Department of Geography, Kings College London. London, UNITED KINGDOM;
[email protected] RICHARD JENNINGS School of Archaeology, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM; richard.jen-
[email protected] HUW S. GROUCUTT School of Archaeology, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM;
[email protected] TOM S. WHITE School of Archaeology, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM;
[email protected] NICHOLAS DRAKE Department of Geography, Kings College London. London, UNITED KINGDOM;
[email protected] REMY CRASSARD CNRS, Maison de l’Orient et de la Mediterranee, Lyon, FRANCE;
[email protected] ABDULLAH ALSHAREKH College of Tourism and Archaeology, King Saud University, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA;
[email protected] MICHAEL D. PETRAGLIA School of Archaeology, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM;
[email protected] ABSTRACT Between the Levant and the Indian sub-continent only a few Acheulean sites have been documented, hampering models of hominin dispersals. Here we describe the first Acheulean sites to be discovered in the Nefud Desert of northern Arabia. The four sites occur in a variety of settings including adjacent to an alluvial fan drainage system, at a knappable stone source, and on the margins of endorheic basins.