A lack of recorded sites in a surveyed or unsurveyed sector is not sufficient evidence that people, pastoral activity, seasonal use or coastal movement were absent.

Supporting sources

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Contradicting sources

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Other source context

• informs · contextualizes
  The Middle and Late Bronze Age in Central Oman: New Insights from Tawi Said, Al-Mudhairib and the Wilayat al-Mudhaybi — Stephanie Döpper (2021)

  Provides a regional example of sparse evidence.

  
  Locator: Later Wadi Suq survey visibility
• informs · critiques interpretation
  Twelve Years of the ‘Arabian Seashores’ Project: How the Extensive Investigation of Coastal Oman Changed the Paradigm of the Arabian Neolithic — Vincent Charpentier, Maria Pia Maiorano, Gregor Marchand, Jérémie Vosges, Federico Borgi (2023)

  Provides direct methodological cautions.

  
  Locator: Survey and preservation limitations
• informs · contextualizes
  The Pre-Aksumite Period: Indigenous Origins and Development in the Horn of Africa — A. Catherine D’Andrea, Lynn Welton, Andrea Manzo, Helina S. Woldekiros, Steven A. Brandt, Alemseged Beldados, Elizabeth A. Peterson, Laurie A. Nixon-Darcus, Michela Gaudiello, Shannon R. Wood, Habtamu Mekonnen, Stephen Batiuk, Yemane Meresa, Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Carla Lancelotti, Abebe Mengistu Taffere, Lucas M. Johnson (2023)

  Provides the northern Horn example.

  
  Locator: Regional coverage and fieldwork history