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403: 164:, given the carving's significant prominence from the rock face. The site is also considered among Saudi Arabia's oldest rock art sites, which typically feature two-dimensional carvings in both prominent and recessed styles, indicating an advanced school of art in the field of rock art. 353:
Guagnin, Maria; Charloux, Guillaume; AlSharekh, Abdullah M.; Crassard, Rémy; Hilbert, Yamandú H.; Andreae, Meinrat O.; AlAmri, Abdullah; Preusser, Frank; Dubois, Fulbert; Burgos, Franck; Flohr, Pascal; Mora, Pascal; AlQaeed, Ahmad; AlAli, Yasser (2022-04-01).
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Guagnin, Maria; Charloux, Guillaume; AlSharekh, Abdullah M.; Crassard, Rémy; Hilbert, Yamandú H.; Andreae, Meinrat O.; AlAmri, Abdullah; Preusser, Frank; Dubois, Fulbert; Burgos, Franck; Flohr, Pascal; Mora, Pascal; AlQaeed, Ahmad; AlAli, Yasser (2022-04-01).
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family, and another whose identity is not clear. The site "likely has the oldest known surviving large-scale animal reliefs in the world", differing in execution from the
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Science in April 2022. The results of the study were officially announced during the scientific conference held by the Heritage Commission in September 2022.
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A scientific study was then conducted by a combined Saudi and international team of researchers from the Heritage Commission,
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The first instance of the discovery dates back to 2010, when the former director of the Saudi Commission for
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discoveries in the region to date, and among the top 10 discoveries in the world in 2021.
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visited the site and issued a report. The former director then returned in 2016 with a
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Index

Saudi Arabia
Al-Jawf Province
Camel
archaeological
Saudi Arabia
Al-Jawf
Saudi Arabia
Sakaka
rock art
Tourism and National
Al-Jawf
Saudi
French
King Saud University
CNRS
Max Planck Institute
Free University of Berlin
Oxford University
the Journal of Archaeological
carvings
camels
equine
rock art
Saudi Arabia
"Monumental Sandstone Reliefs from the Neolithic: New Insights from the Camel Site in Saudi Arabia"
"Oldest Animal Art - Archaeology Magazine"
"Camel carvings dating back 2,000 years found in Saudi Arabia"
"Life-sized Neolithic camel sculptures in Arabia: A scientific assessment of the craftsmanship and age of the Camel Site reliefs"
doi
10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103165

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