The mystery of 12,000 year old animal carving found in the deserted desert

The mystery of 12,000 year old animal carving found in the deserted desert

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Notable life-size rock carving, depiction of camels, gazel and others AnimalHas been discovered in Saudi Arabia The desert, researchers dated these ancient artifacts for 12,000 years.

Many of these complex engraving are longer than 1.8 meters, which offer a rare window in prehistoric life.

Scientist Suggest that wide lines were carefully prepared using a wedge -shaped rock. Interestingly, many monumental pieces were placed on a narrow verge, which is an important challenge for ancient artists, unable to move forward and assess their work as it proceeded.

“To expand great with a rock, takes real skills,” an archaeologist Maria Guganin commented. Max plank institute In geyantropology GermanyWhich was part of the Discovery team.

The presence of these animal carvings and related engraving equipment on the site suggests that the human habitat in the region was a few,000 years before it was already understood.

A scene reflects the excavation of a trench directly under a rock art panel that engraves on a camel sandstone

A scene reflects the excavation of a trench directly under a rock art panel that engraves on a camel sandstone ,Via,

However, the exact methods of existence in such dry conditions remain a mystery, the researchers thought whether the community is shallow, seasonal lakes or water collected in deep cracks.

While Rock Art has been a feature Saudi Arabia For millennia, as Guganin said, dating old engraving often proves challenging. This is mainly due to the absence of written elements and lack of organic relics such as charcoal, which are usually important for laboratory analysis.

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“We know relatively less about art Middle East During this ancient times of the human past, “Michael Harover, A Johns Hopkins University Archaeologists who were not involved in research said in an email.

In the latest search, Scientist Burned a rock pick in the landscape directly under carving, allowing them to use equipment and the art that was used to make it. His findings were published in the Nature Communications Journal on Tuesday.

Maria Guganin, an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute of JioNthropology in Germany, said that people have been making rock art in Saudi Arabia for thousands of years

Maria Guganin, an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute of JioNthropology in Germany, said that people have been making rock art in Saudi Arabia for thousands of years ,Sahout Rock Art and Archaeology Project,

Scientists were not sure that if People During this time period lived in the desert as conditions were dry and water was considered rare. they thought People Later can move, when the landscape was marked by greenery pastures and lakes.

One of the carvings depicted an analysis, an ancestor of wild cattle who did not live in the desert and it became extinct. This surprised Guganin whether the artists had faced animals by traveling elsewhere during the dry season.

He said, “They are establishing a fully established communities that really knew the landscape,” he said.