US EditionResearchers Discover 12,000-Year-Old Life-Size Animal Engravings in Saudi Arabia
Researchers documented 176 engravings at three sites revealing human survival and mobility during a dry period once thought uninhabitable, with life-size animal carvings as evidence.
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The drawings show camels or gazelles: researchers in Saudi Arabia have discovered impressive evidence of stone age inhabitants. The discovery also shows that the region was inhabited much earlier than previously thought.
When archaeologist and anthropologist Michael Petraglia wrote today (Thursday) on his X account: “About 12,000 years ago, on a high cliff in the Hail desert, an artist—or perhaps artists—was hard at work.” He wasn’t describing an archaeological scene, but rather opening a window into the moment of the birth of the first human art. There, in the heart of Hail, Saudi Arabia, ancient humans did not content themselves with hunting and subsistence, b…
About 12,000 years ago, people in northern Arabia lived under a climate that was already extremely inhospitable at that time.
Ancient life-size rock art in Saudi Arabia reveals earliest human presence and desert oases
Archaeologists have unearthed monumental rock art and artifacts in northern Saudi Arabia that contradict conventional assumptions about when human beings originally inhabited the deserts of the region. The carvings, dated between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago, are the oldest direct archaeological proof of human settlement in the Arabian interior during a period long thought to […]
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