Erratum to: Refining landscape contexts for open-air, Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites: a case study from Muthanna Province, Southern Iraq

摘要: Open-air Paleolithic sites in desert and semiarid landscapes provide interpretive quandaries because of the absence depositional matrices stratigraphic controls. This paper argues that datable stratified vertical contexts may be preserved vicinity open-air artifact scatters. These, turn, account for paleo-environmental conditions would have attracted groups. The site question is Southern Iraqi desert, a locale heretofore terra incognita early hominin activity. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dates were taken from ancient spring dune deposits depression flanking hamada surfaces on which distributions found. Geochemical granulometric studies used to reconstruct histories locale, projected onto contemporary oxygen isotope curves serve as proxies climatic cycles operational across greater Near East. advent OSL dating provides new window events environments linked chronologies. locations surface scatters signify preservation nearby micro-environments could structuring landscape occupational