Bedouins’ adaptation in Oman: an indicator of climate change and prehistory

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The Bedouins’ adaptation in Oman is adjusted to rigorous conditions of scanty resources.

Still, investigations didn ’t find Bedouins remains in the archaeological context since their culture is not validated by any cultural material, or tools associated with their specific culture.

This paper looks into their adaptation in order to establish a reasonable conception of the prehistoric groups who occupied the same territories and environment in Oman.

Predominantly, adapting to comparable environmental conditions yields parallels in ways and methods adopted by each group.

To accomplish this, the paper looks into the Bedouins’ occupational sites, cultural material, adaptation, and the climatic change in order to achieve an understanding of the prehistoric conditions.

In addition, it weighs up the nature and influence of change in climatic conditions and its impact on human adaptation.

The paper concludes that the Bedouins’ adaptation offers an acceptable correspondence to prehistoric groups in Oman before 3000 BC.

Climatic change must have forced prehistoric groups to either adapt or migrate in search for better conditions.

Again, it presumes that since territoriality is a convention that manages the use of the meager resources.

It is a functional response of an ancient cultural ecology that progressed in specific environmental settings.