The National Museum Organizes Lecture in Archaeology

The Learning Centre on the National Museum, in cooperation with the Geological Society of Oman, organized a YouTube lecture entitled “Geology and Archeology of the Southern Empty Quarter: New Discoveries”. The lecture was offered by Dr. Mohammed al-Kindi from the Earth Sciences Consultancy Centre (ESCC), and Dr. Maria Pia Maiorano, University of Naples “L’Orientale”

The lecture reviewed the surveys made by a crew of archaeologists and geologists throughout the years (2019-2020) in the southeastern borders of the Omani a part of the Empty Quarter. The research revealed large numbers of objects that helped to study in regards to the stratigraphic geology of the area, local weather historical past, and archeology.

The two lecturers additionally touched on the findings of the survey, which revealed many stone instruments that point out settlement in totally different intervals of the Paleolithic and Neolithic intervals. These instruments included stone animal holdfasts, stone pestles, arrowheads, and stone axes. These instruments have been discovered aspect by aspect together with the fossils of animal bones courting again to the animals that people hunted in these historical instances.

The survey revealed the existence of websites courting again to the Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic and Late Stone Age. Findings from this area present helpful info on the Middle Holocene settlement of the area, of which there was little info obtainable.

The survey was carried out by a crew of geologists and archaeologists with the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism in the world north of Mitan in the Wilayat of Al Mazyouna in the Governorate of Dhofar in January of 2019 and 2020. The crew was headed by Dr. Mohammed al-Kindi. The mission, which was generally known as the Omani-French Mission, included an outstanding group of geologists and archeologists.