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Yamandu Hilbert. Completed the Doctor of Philosophy in Prehistoric Archaeology in 2013/07/05 by University of Birmingham Classics Ancient History and Archaeology and Bachelor in Prehistoric Archaeology in 2008/12/08 by Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters. Published 18 articles in journals. Has 2 book(s). Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s), Pos-doctoral Fellow in 1 project(s), Principal investigator in 2 project(s) and Researcher in 5 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Social Sciences with emphasis on Sociology with emphasis on Anthropology. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Prehistoric Archaeology; Stone Tools; Arabian Peninsula; Paleolithic; Neolithic; Traceology; Paleoclimate; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Yamandu Hilbert

Citation names

  • Hilbert, Yamandú H.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FE16-959D-B107
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5469-2933
Education
Degree Classification
2010/02/01 - 2013/07/05
Concluded
 Prehistoric Archaeology (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Birmingham Classics Ancient History and Archaeology, United Kingdom
"AN INVESTIGATION OF LATE PALAEOLITHIC STONE TOOL ASSEMBLAGES FROM THE NEJD PLATEAU, SOUTHERN OMAN" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2006/02/01 - 2008/12/08
Concluded
 Prehistoric Archaeology (Bachelor)
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Germany
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09/01 - 2021/02/28 Researcher (Research) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Department Alte Welt und Asiatische Kulturen, Germany
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020 - Current Mission Arqueologic Franco Saudien a Najran Saudi Arabia
ANR 2020
Researcher
Orient et Mediterranée, France
 Agence nationale de la recherche
Ongoing
2018 - Current Economic diversification and social complexity in non-urban societies: the perspective of Eastern Arabia though the Early Bronze Age settlement of Ras al-Jinz
HJ-135-17
Researcher
Universiteit Leiden Faculteit der Archeologie, Netherlands
 National Geographic Society
Ongoing
2019/12/01 - 2020/12/01 TaphoTraceArabia: Taphonomy and traceology of Palaeolithic stone tools from Arabia
Main Research Grant 2019
Principal investigator
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
 International Foundation for the Study of Arabia
Ongoing
2013/03 - 2017/02 The Palaeodeserts Project
ERC Senior Search grant 2012-2017
Researcher
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
 European Research Council
Concluded
2016 - 2017 Exploring the Dhofar refugium: a proposed archaeological investigation of human prehistory and palaeoenvironments in southern Arabia during the Last Ice Age
NG CRE Grant 9950-16
Researcher
National Geographic Society
Concluded
2011 - 2016 French-Saudi Mission to Yamamah
ANR 2010 -2016
Researcher
Orient et Mediterranée, France
 Agence nationale de la recherche
Concluded
2011 - 2016 Franco-Italian-Saudi Archaeological Mission to Dumas al Jandal
ANR 2011-2016
Researcher
Orient et Mediterranée, France
 Agence nationale de la recherche
Concluded
2013/01/01 - 2015/01/01 Studying Late Pleistocene Archaeology in Southern Arabia
Post-doctoral study grant 2012
Post-doc Fellow
Archéorient Environnements et Sociétés de l'Orient Ancien, France
 Fondation Fyssen
Concluded
2013/02/01 - 2014/01/31 Tracking the first modern humans in southern Arabia
NG Waitt Grant W253-12
Researcher
National Geographic Society
Concluded
2010/01/01 - 2012/08/31 Archaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Investigation of Upper Pleistocene human occupation in the Dhofar Mountains, southern Arabia
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PhD Student Fellow
University of Birmingham Classics Ancient History and Archaeology, United Kingdom
 UK Research and Innovation
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/09/01 - 2021/02/28 How did Human Behaviour change During the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene in South Arabia?
91726476
Principal investigator
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Jeffrey I. Rose; Hilbert, Yamandu; Vitaly I. Usik; Anthony E. Marks. THE FIRST PEOPLES OF OMAN. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archeopres. 2019.
    Published
  2. Hilbert, Yamandu. Khashabian A Late Paleolithic industry from Dhofar, Southern Oman. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archeopress. 2014.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Hilbert, Yamandu; Jeanne M. Geiling; Jeffrey I. Rose. "Terminal Pleistocene archaeology and archaeogenetics in South Arabia : Evidence from an ice age refugium". In Vivre en milieu aride de la Préhistoire à aujourd’hui, edited by L. Purdue; J. Charbonnier; L. Khalidi, 33-49. Antibes, France: Éditions APDCA, 2018.
    Published
  2. Rémy Crassard; Hilbert, Yamandu. "The Prehistory of the Region of Al-Kharj". In Al-Kharj I : Report on two excavation seasons in the Oasis of Al-Kharj 2011 - 2012 Saudi Arabia, edited by Jeremie Schittecatte; Al-Ghazzi Abdulaziz, 51-80. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, 2016.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Remy Crassard; Hilbert, Yamandu. "Bidirectional blade technology on naviform cores from northern Arabia: New evidence of Arabian-Levantine interactions in the Neolithic". Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aae.12138.
    In press • 10.1111/aae.12138
  2. Yamandú H. Hilbert. "Jebel Kareem (TH.68): Techno-typological characteristics of a distinctive lithic assemblage from Dhofar, southern Oman". Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy (2019): https://doi.org/10.1111/aae.12141.
    In press • 10.1111/aae.12141
  3. Jeffrey.I. Rose; Hilbert, Yamandu; Vitaly I. Usik; Anthony E. Marks; Muhammad Jaboob; V. Cerny; Remy Crassard; Frank Preusser. "30,000-Year-Old Geometric Microliths Reveal Glacial Refugium in Dhofar, Southern Oman". Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 2 (2019): 383-357. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41982-019-00027-3.
    Published • 10.1007/s41982-019-00027-3
  4. Crassard, R.; Hilbert, Y.H.; Preusser, F.; Wulf, G.; Schiettecatte, J.. "Middle Palaeolithic occupations in central Saudi Arabia during MIS 5 and MIS 7: new insights on the origins of the peopling of Arabia". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11 7 (2019): 3101-3120. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85056404245&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1007/s12520-018-0743-2
  5. Hilbert, Y.H.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Geiling, J.M.; Setien, J.; Ruiz-Martinez, E.; Lentfer, C.; Rots, V.; Rose, J.I.. "Woodworking sites from the Late Paleolithic of South Arabia: Functional and technological analysis of burins from Dhofar, Oman". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 20 (2018): 115-134. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85046626373&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.04.010
  6. Hilbert, Yamandu; Crassard Rémy; Guillaume Charloux; Rollo Loreto. "Nubian technology in northern Arabia: Impact on interregional variability of Middle Paleolithic industries". Quaternary International 435 (2017): 77-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.047.
    Published • 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.047
  7. Schiettecatte Jérémie; Al-Ghazzi Abdulaziz; Al-Hamad Abdulaziz; Chabrol Antoine; Charloux Guillaume; Crassard Rémy; Fouache Eric; et al. "Al-Kharj 2011–2012. 1st and 2nd seasons of the Saudi-French Archaeological Mission". Atlal 24 (2017): 147-183.
    Published
  8. Yamandú H. Hilbert; Rémy Crassard; Jeffrey I. Rose; Jeanne M. Geiling; Vitaly I. Usik. "Technological homogeneity within the Arabian Nubian Complex: Comparing chert and quartzite assemblages from central and southern Arabia". Journal of Lithic Studies 3 2 (2016): https://doi.org/10.2218%2Fjls.v3i2.1420.
    Open access • Published • 10.2218/jls.v3i2.1420
  9. Y.H. Hilbert; A. Parton; M.W. Morley; L.P. Linnenlucke; Z. Jacobs; L. Clark-Balzan; R.G. Roberts; et al. "Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeology and stratigraphy of the southern Nejd, Oman". Quaternary International 382 (2015): 250-263. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.02.053.
    Published • 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.02.053
  10. Paul S. Breeze; Nick A. Drake; Huw S. Groucutt; Ash Parton; Richard P. Jennings; Tom S. White; Laine Clark-Balzan; et al. "Remote sensing and GIS techniques for reconstructing Arabian palaeohydrology and identifying archaeological sites". Quaternary International 382 (2015): 98-119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.022.
    Published • 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.022
  11. Yamandú H. Hilbert; Vitaly I. Usik; Christopher S. Galletti; Mike W. Morley; Ash Parton; Laine Clark-Balzan; Jean-Luc Schwenninger; et al. "Archaeological evidence for indigenous human occupation of Southern Arabia at the Pleistocene/ Holocene transition: The case of al-Hatab in Dhofar, Southern Oman". Paléorient 41 2 (2015): 31-49. https://doi.org/10.3406%2Fpaleo.2015.5674.
    Open access • Published • 10.3406/paleo.2015.5674
  12. Yamandú H. Hilbert; Tom S. White; Ash Parton; Laine Clark-Balzan; Rémy Crassard; Huw S. Groucutt; Richard P. Jennings; et al. "Epipalaeolithic occupation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia, during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene". Journal of Archaeological Science 50 (2014): 460-474. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.07.023.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jas.2014.07.023
  13. Jeffrey Rose; Yamandú H. Hilbert. "New Prehistoric Sites In The Southern Rub' Al-Khali Desert, Oman". Antiquity 88 381 (2014):
    Published • 10.5281/zenodo.896473
  14. Hilbert, Yamandú Hieronymus. "Südarabien während des Spätpleistozäns und Frühholozäns: Archäologie, Paläogenetik und Populationsdynamik". Archäologische Informationen 30 (2014): 9-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.11588/AI.2014.0.18187.
    Published • 10.11588/AI.2014.0.18187
  15. Rémy Crassard; Yamandú Hieronymus Hilbert. "A Nubian Complex Site from Central Arabia: Implications for Levallois Taxonomy and Human Dispersals during the Upper Pleistocene". PLoS ONE 8 7 (2013): e69221-e69221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069221.
    Open access • Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0069221
  16. Yamandú H. Hilbert. "Khamseen rock shelter and the Late Palaeolithic-Neolithic transition in Dhofar". Arabian Archaeol Epigr 24 1 (2013): 51-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aae.12018.
    Published • 10.1111/aae.12018
  17. Schiettecatte, J.; Al-Ghazzi, A.; Charloux, G.; Crassard, R.; Hilbert, Y.; Monchot, H.; Mouton, M.; Siméon, P.. "The oasis of al-Kharj through time: First results of archaeological fieldwork in the province of Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)". Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 43 (2013): 285-308.
    Published
  18. Usik, V.I.; Rose, J.I.; Hilbert, Y.H.; Van Peer, P.; Marks, A.E.. "Nubian Complex reduction strategies in Dhofar, southern Oman". Quaternary International 300 (2013): 244-266. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84878989876&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.08.2111
  19. Hilbert, Yamandu. "Late Palaeolithic Core-Reduction Strategies In Dhofar, Oman". Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 42 (2012): 101-118.
    Published • 10.5281/zenodo.896509
  20. Hilbert, Y.H.; Azzarà, V.M.. "Lithic technology and spatial distribution of artefacts at the Early Bronze Age site HD-6 (Sharqiyya Region, Sultanate of Oman)". Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 23 1 (2012): 7-25. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84859525677&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1111/j.1600-0471.2011.00348.x
  21. Jeffrey I. Rose; Vitaly I. Usik; Anthony E. Marks; Hilbert, Yamandu; Christopher S. Galletti; Ash Part; Jeanne Marie Geiling; et al. "The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia". PLOS ONE 6 11 (2011): e28239. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0028239.
    Open access • Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0028239
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/07 Technological and typological variability of Upper and Late Palaeolithic stone tool assemblages from South Arabia. The 53rd Seminar for Arabian Studies (Special Session – LITHICS IN ARABIA)
International Foundation for the Study of Arabia (Leiden, Netherlands)
2019/07 What makes a Levallois core Nubian, type-list or classification? The 53rd Seminar for Arabian Studies (Special Session – LITHICS IN ARABIA)
International Foundation for the Study of Arabia (Leiden, Netherlands)
2019/07 The Middle Paleolithic of central and northern Saudi Arabia and their implications on demographic dispersals The 53rd Seminar for Arabian Studies (Special Session – LITHICS IN ARABIA)
International Foundation for the Study of Arabia (Leiden, Netherlands)
2019/07 Preliminary investigation of the lithic industry from the Iron Age coastal settlement at Inqitat (HAS1), southern Oman The 53rd Seminar for Arabian Studies (Special Session – LITHICS IN ARABIA),
International Foundation for the Study of Arabia (Leiden, Netherlands)
2018/11 Stone tool use in Arabia during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene human occupation: trends and their impact on human demography. Third International Conference on The Archaeology of The Arabian Peninsula (The Neolithic in Arabia)
National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters - Kuwait City (Kuwait, Kuwait)
2017/10 The long road from habitat to refugia to oasis: the case of Dhofar Southern Oman. XXXVIII Rencontres Internationales d’archéologie et d’histoire d’Antibes
(Antibes, France)
2016/12 Spatial analysis of surface finds and their relation to prehistoric rock art at Las Monedas Cave, Cantabria El Arte De Las Sociedades Prehistoricas
Universidad de Cantabria (Santander, Spain)
2016/08 The Afro-Arabian Nubian Complex a homogenous technocomplex? 23th BIENNIAL MEETING: AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
University of Toulouse (Toulouse, France)
2016/06 Hand axe morphological and technological variability across the Arabian Peninsula Workshop ¿ The Lower Paleolithic of Arabia
University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)
2015/09 Mesolithic? Epipaleolithic? Late Paleolithic? The Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene archaeological record of Arabian. Mesolithic in Europ
University of Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia)
2015/09 Nubian Levallois production system, raw material availability and variability in Arabia International Symposium of Knappable Materials
University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2014/11 En busca de la prehistoria del desierto árabe: una revisión de la investigación actual en el sur de Omán. Archaeological Methodology Symposium
Universidad de Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain)
2014/09 Grasping temporal variability and landscape evolution: Spatial analysis of surface scatters from the Nejd Plateau, Oman UISPP
Universidad de Burgos (Burgos, Spain)
2014/04 The Late Palaeolithic of Southern Arabia: climatic, genetic and archaeological records Green Arabia Conference
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2013/05 Population dynamics at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary in Southern Arabia, Archaeological and Paleogenetic evidence from Dhofar, Oman Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (Erlangen, Germany)
2012/05 Khamseen Rockshelter: the Late Paleolithic/Neolithic transition in Dhofar. ESF SCH Exploratory Workshop: The Neolithic of Arabia: New Paradigms and Future Perspectives
Archeorient CNRS UMR 5133 (Lyon, France)
2011/07 A Leptolithic Tradition in Southwest Arabia: Technological variability in the Late Paleolithic of the Nejd Plateau, Oman, Dhofar. Seminar of Arabian Studies
Britisch Museum (London, United Kingdom)
2009/04 Ground stone tool taxonomy: An analysis of the MSA material from Mumba Cave, Tanzania 51 Annual Meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Gesellschaft
University of Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/07/12 - 2019/07/13 A Special Session dedicated to Stone tool technology in the Arabian Peninsula, including 12 presentations from specialists in different periods ranging from the Lower Paleolithic to the Iron Age periods held during the 53 edition of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at Leiden University (The Netherlands). The main goals of the symposium were the discussion of common terminologies, regional patterns and chronological variability of stone tools and prehistoric/protohistoric production activities. (2019/07/12 - 2019/07/13)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 International Foundation for the Study of Arabia, United Kingdom

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2016/09/14 - 2016/09/18 Poster Presentation: Upper Paleolithic Sites In Northern Saudi Arabia And The Extend Of The Levantine Up Contextual Zone: Implications For Human Movements Across The Northern Arabian Peninsula During MIS 3
Congress
 6th3 Annual Meeting Of The European Society For The Study Of Human Evolution
Museo Arquelógico Regional in Alcalá de Henares , Spain
2013/09/19 - 2013/09/21 Poster Presentation : Al-Kharj 22, A Nubian Complex Site In Central Saudi Arabia
Conference
 3 Annual Meeting Of The European Society For The Study Of Human Evolution
Universitat Wien Institut fur Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie, Austria

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2017/03 - 2017/04 Archaeological Consulting of 5 Oceans LLC for the Duqm pipeline and crude oil refinery in Oman. Activities included archaeological and heritage based assessments of the construction impact and possible mitigation strategies to minimize heritage loss.
2012/03/02 - 2012/03/07 Archaeological consulting for 5 Oceans LLC - Dhofar Wind Park. A five days archaeological impact assessment of the construction zone of the Dhofar Wind Park was conducted. Archaeological sites within the constriction area have been mapped and potential mitigation strategies have been suggested in order to preserve the local heritage.

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2014/09 - 2014/12 Prehistory of the Arabian Peninsula Archaeology (Master) Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
2013/09 - 2013/11 Lithic Technology Archaeology (Master) Université Lumière Lyon 2, France