Dozens of animal monuments have been excavated in Saudi Arabia’s Nefid desert. His history is 2,000 years older than the previous initial evidence of human occupation in the area. This discovery has appeared in the journal Nature communications.
Prior to this discovery, the first human presence in the region was documented at Novolithic sites 10,000 years ago, which had the peak of activity 7,600 to 6,800 years ago, at the end of the Holson humid period, when people had large stone hunting, formal structures and animals. Very few archaeological materials have been found before the Holosin humid period on the Arabian Peninsula. The atmosphere was extremely dry and without archaeological places of history, human occupation was absent.
In 2022, the Sahout Rock Art site was discovered. Archaeologists documented 18 life -shaped paintings of camels, Ixas, Gazelles, wild equations and oraws, which are more than six feet high, which is carved on sand stones and out crops. The test was excavated at that time, however, but no history content could be linked to rock art.
Three more camel panels have been reported to the heritage officials by members of the public at the south of the Sahout Pacifics. Archaeologists documented new discovered panels and found most of them on the surfaces of stones and mountains, some of them in inaccessible places. The largest recorded panel could only reach the mountain and access. The painter then had to stand on the edge of the bottom of the width less than 20 inches on its wide point. The brave artist set up a 125 -foot height on the mountain surface on this small edge, with 23 life -sized camels and nine feet on the elevation of two mountains on the faces of two mountains, long tall long long long long long long long long long. Archaeologists had to use a drone to document archaeologists to document it.
Overall, researchers documentary of 62 rock art panels with 176 painters, 130 of them camels, Ibex, Equality, Gazel and the realistic reflection of the size of another. The first indicators of these panels are natural dark rocky varnish, which coats the surfaces of the sand stone and embedd itself in the scarf lines. The varnish takes more than 8,000 years after the sand stone is exposed.
Archaeologists dug four trenches, which searched for archaeological reserves associated with stone art, which could have history. More than 1200 lathex (slightly flakes from the painter to the painter) and 16 pieces of bones that can occur in the history of radio carbon. Directly under the camel’s two -life camels, a clear strategic strategy was revealed in the excavation that established the camels, after which it was dug after the fourth layer was collected. They found a lathex and a stone toll that may have been used to produce this art.
Archaeologists were allowed to conclude that radio carbon dating, luminosis dating and strategographic analysis were excavated about some of the rock art about 12,000 years ago. The artists who literally put their lives in danger to put the memorable animals on the faces of the mountains, were the first famous occupation of the Northern Arab interior after the last ice maximum (LGM).
These pioneers were able to flourish in the barren conditions of the terminal Plyson and early Holson due to seasonal aquatic institutions. The presence of key lathe artifacts, such as Al -Khayam and Helwan points, as well as decorative artifacts such as green pigments and dental beads, these human groups have maintained contact with their leonatine neighbors. [Pre-Pottery Neolithic]Traveling on extensive distances. However, the painters of Jabel Ernan and Jabel Mesma had their own, separate cultural and symbolic identities. In their environment, where their adaptation, where water was only temporarily available, includes complex movements along with various water sources. Unlike their Lionatine neighbors, they developed a memorable rock art that focuses around the desert animal symbol: camel. These memorable images were used to mark water sources and routes between them, which probably provide impressive visual reminders of access rights, while reminding these extraordinary desert groups over thousands of years.
