“…8000 BC ( Al Khasawneh et al, 2019 ), and of ‘wheels’ to seemingly Neolithic to Bronze age times ( Athanassas et al, 2015 ; Rollefson et al, 2016 ), indicate that large-scale stone structures were being constructed on the margins of northern Arabia in the early to middle Holocene. Likewise, cairns, date from the Neolithic to at least the Iron Age ( Abu-Azizeh et al, 2014 ; Guagnin et al 2017b , 2020 ). In southern Jordan, cairns associated with platforms and other rectangular structures arranged in specific spatial arrangements were dated to the Neolithic periods, with the oldest cairn dating to 5341–5049 BC ( Abu-Azizeh et al, 2014 ; see also Fujii, 2013 ).…”