A rock art tradition of life-sized, naturalistic engravings of camels in Northern Arabia: new insights on the mobility of Neolithic populations in the Nafud Desert

Charloux, Guillaume; Guagnin, Maria; Petraglia, Michael D.; Alsharekh, Abdullah

doi:10.15184/aqy.2022.95

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“…To date, finds of Levantine lithic forms at northern Arabian Neolithic sites, as well as the presence of gold in a context radiocarbon dated to between 3634 and 3382 BCE at Jebel Oraf, provide evidence of repeated contact that continued over several millennia and may have been driven by the extreme mobility that characterized Neolithic sites in the Nefud region and along the Gulf coast (Carter, 2018; Guagnin et al, 2021; Scerri et al, 2018). Further evidence has recently also been documented in the distribution of large camel engravings that were repeatedly re-worked by the same hand, and thus document the repeated movement of individuals across or around the Nefud desert (Charloux et al, 2022). Along the Gulf coast, trade with ‘Ubaid pottery is well documented throughout the sixth and fifth millennia BCE, likely a result of maritime trade, and it is possible that date products were traded in exchange (Carter, 2018).…”

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“…Cattle are thought to have been introduced via southern Jordan (Makarewicz, 2020) and 'Ubaid pottery was traded along the Gulf coast, possibly in exchange for date products (Carter, 2018). Large engravings of camels also show evidence of repeated contact across the Nefud desert (Charloux et al, 2022). Arrows placement is approximate and used to symbolize the general direction of connections.…”

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Following the herds? A new distribution of hunting kites in Southwest Asia

2022

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Remote-sensing analysis of open-source satellite imagery has identified a major, new distribution of undocumented hunting kite structures in northern Arabia. This new data has important implications on the environmental viability of hunting and on possible settlement patterns during the early and middle Holocene. Running across the eastern side of the Nafud Desert in Saudi Arabia, this research has identified star-shaped kites in a distribution that continues on to southern Iraq. From a broader perspective, this new distribution appears to represent a continuation of the well-known arc of kites recorded running principally through southern Syria and eastern Jordan. As well as representing an important archaeological identification in its own right, this new distribution also has important implications in terms of the paleoenvironment of the region, faunal dispersals and human cultural connections.

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Following the herds? A new distribution of hunting kites in Southwest Asia

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“…Although rock-art panels are very common in the deserts discussed here, they mostly depict selected animal species, abstract forms, anthropomorphic figures and, in later periods, camels (and camel riders) and inscriptions (Anati 1999; 2015; Avner et al 2017; Charloux et al 2022; Eisenberg-Degen & Rosen 2013; Eisenberg-Degen & Nash 2014; Schwimer & Yekutieli 2021). Rock-art depictions of kites are rare, and seem not to be specific to a particular trap (e.g.…”

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The Constructed Desert: A Sacred Cultural Landscape at Har Tzuriaz, Negev, Israel

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Past and present cultures perceive their natural landscape as an integral and vital component of their complex worlds, while particular landscape features and associated monuments built in selected locales become sacred and revered through stories, legends and rituals embedded in mundane and ceremonial events. The hyper-arid Har Tzuriaz area in the southern Negev, Israel, offers a case study of culture-geographic continuities over a chronologically cumulative archaeological sequence. The large set of well-preserved structures located adjacent to water sources, a massive escarpment and a major desert crossroads includes campsites, cult sites, rock-art sites, cairn fields and one desert kite (a large game trap). Cultural continuities and change can be traced from the sixth millennium bce through recent times, reflecting a dynamic system of meanings and interpretations of both the natural and the built landscape within one particular sacred area in the desert. These phenomena are exemplified in archaeological analyses of an open-air shrine, burial cairns, an isolated desert kite and a precise engraving of that kite dated 5000 years later, all in the general context of a dense concentration of surveyed sites.

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“…It has been postulated that the camel was introduced to Somalia from Arabia. In recent investigations on a vast area of Northwest Arabia, pictures of live-size camels are assigned up to 5000 years ago [42]. However, growing evidence suggest that the camel domestication time difference in Arabia and Somalia was relatively insignificant.…”

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Social and Economic Developments in Pre-Islamic Somalia: Introducing African-Arabian-Mediterranean Interaction

Hussein¹

2023

Antiquity - Including the “East” as “Western Identity”

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Although the history of Somalia is poorly studied, occasional researches show that the nation has a rich, ancient history. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the evolution of Somali society and aspects of their economy throughout circa 3000 BCE–500 CE. During 1960s–1980s, it has been postulated that the Somalis originated from the region of Omo-Tana around 1500 BCE and eventually expanded toward the north until 1400 CE. The chapter reassessed this hypothesis and further used new or less utilized data from linguistic, genetic, archeology, and ancient documentary sources. The integrated data suggest that the ancestral home of the Macro-Somali was the northern part of their Peninsula from about 3000 BCE and in due course, they expanded toward the south and west throughout 1500 BCE–500 CE. The data also explain the nature of their pre-Islamic socioeconomic system and their interaction with the Arabian-Mediterranean region upon which the Greco-Roman geographers of 150 BCE–550 CE elaborated.

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A rock art tradition of life-sized, naturalistic engravings of camels in Northern Arabia: new insights on the mobility of Neolithic populations in the Nafud Desert

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Following the herds? A new distribution of hunting kites in Southwest Asia

Following the herds? A new distribution of hunting kites in Southwest Asia

The Constructed Desert: A Sacred Cultural Landscape at Har Tzuriaz, Negev, Israel

Social and Economic Developments in Pre-Islamic Somalia: Introducing African-Arabian-Mediterranean Interaction

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