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Rock art landscapes beside the Jubbah palaeolake, Saudi Arabia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard P. Jennings ,
Ceri Shipton ,
Abdulaziz Al-Omari ,
Abdullah M. Alsharekh ,
Rémy Crassard ,
Huw Groucutt  and
Michael D. Petraglia
Richard P. Jennings
Affiliation:
1School of Archaeology, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2HU, UK
Ceri Shipton
Affiliation:
2School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Abdulaziz Al-Omari
Affiliation:
3Taif Antiquities Office, Taif, Makka, Saudi Arabia
Abdullah M. Alsharekh
Affiliation:
4Department of Archaeology, College of Tourism & Archaeology, King Saud University, PO Box 2454, 11451 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Rémy Crassard
Affiliation:
5CNRS, UMR5133, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 5/7 rue Raulin, 39365 Lyon cedex 07, France
Huw Groucutt
Affiliation:
1School of Archaeology, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2HU, UK
Michael D. Petraglia
Affiliation:
1School of Archaeology, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2HU, UK
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Abstract

The authors have undertaken a systematic survey of rock art along the Jubbah palaeolake in northern Saudi Arabia and interpret the results using GIS. They conclude that the overwhelming majority of prehistoric rock art sites overlook contemporary early Holocene palaeolakes, and that the distribution of later Thamudic rock art offers insights into human mobility patterns at Jubbah in the first millennium BC.

Keywords

ArabiaHolocenetenth millennium BPThamudicrock artpalaeolakeslandscapeGIS
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 87 , Issue 337 , September 2013 , pp. 666 - 683
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2013

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