The NeoArabia project tries to understand how environmental, social, economic and technological factors work in concert to influence settlement and abandonment along a latitudinal transect of 1200 km from UAE to southern Oman. This region was affected by wide north–south variations in the Indo‐Arabian monsoon, marine upwelling activity and eustatic variations in the Mid‐Holocene. On the local settlement scale, this transect is based on fine stratigraphic excavations and permits the reconstruction of the site formation processes and site catchment analysis. A large number of studies have been conducted on the Ruways‐1 site, focusing on a deep stratified sequence corresponding to three millennia of occupation. These studies include on‐site climate‐environmental signal analysis, local palaeogeography and environmental reconstruction, reservoir effect studies, typo‐technological studies, palaeoeconomic strategies, anthropological studies, sclerochronological studies and, finally, site formation processes, the understanding of which makes it possible to explain the potential and limits of the archaeological excavation. The first results confirm the richness of these archaeological archives for documenting the socio‐environmental dynamics, but also the richness of its complex sedimentary structure and the importance of conducting fine and multidisciplinary excavations to answer questions about the rhythms and functions of occupations and the causalities of socio‐environmental changes.

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Ruways 1 新石器时代贝壳米登（阿曼）的发掘和年代地层研究在新石器化、古经济、社会-环境相互作用和遗址形成过程方面的第一个贡献

NeoArabia 项目试图了解环境、社会、经济和技术因素如何协同作用以影响从阿联酋到阿曼南部 1200 公里的横断面的定居和废弃。该地区受到印度-阿拉伯季风的南北大范围变化、海洋上升流活动和全新世中期海面变化的影响。在当地聚落尺度上，该断面基于精细地层挖掘，允许重建场地形成过程和场地集水区分析。已经在 Ruways-1 站点上进行了大量研究，重点关注对应于三千年占领的深层分层序列。这些研究包括现场气候-环境信号分析、当地古地理和环境重建、水库效应研究、类型技术研究、古经济战略、人类学研究、年代学研究，最后是遗址形成过程，对这些的理解可以解释考古发掘的潜力和局限性。第一个结果证实了这些用于记录社会环境动态的考古档案的丰富性，也证实了其复杂的沉积结构的丰富性，以及进行精细和多学科挖掘以回答有关职业节奏和功能的问题以及其因果关系的重要性。社会环境变化。对这一点的理解使得解释考古发掘的潜力和局限性成为可能。第一个结果证实了这些用于记录社会环境动态的考古档案的丰富性，也证实了其复杂的沉积结构的丰富性，以及进行精细和多学科挖掘以回答有关职业节奏和功能的问题以及其因果关系的重要性。社会环境变化。对这一点的理解使得解释考古发掘的潜力和局限性成为可能。第一个结果证实了这些用于记录社会环境动态的考古档案的丰富性，也证实了其复杂的沉积结构的丰富性，以及进行精细和多学科挖掘以回答有关职业节奏和功能的问题以及其因果关系的重要性。社会环境变化。