Dûmat al-Jandal (Arabie Saoudite). Premières explorations de l’oasis antique par la mission archéologique italo-franco-saoudienne

Charloux, Guillaume; Loreto, Romolo

doi:10.3406/crai.2011.93228

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“…The Nabateans were established at Petra in the third century BCE, and their kingdom extended at least as far south as Hegra (Ḥigrâ', al-Hijr, modern Mada'in Salih) (Nehmé et al, 2006(Nehmé et al, , 2012(Nehmé et al, , 2014. One of their trade routes passed through Dumat al-Jandal and Sakaka, connecting Hegra and Tayma to Mesopotamia (Charloux, 2018;Charloux & Loreto, 2011). The Kilwa site lies near two minor camel trails and desert tracks, one connecting Aqaba and Petra to Dumat al-Jandal via Maʿan, El Jafr and Wadi Sirhan, the other Amman to Tayma via the Bayir Wells.…”

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“…A large amount of work was carried out in the Sakaka–Dumat al‐Jandal area starting in 2009 by the Saudi–Italian–French Archaeological Project, with important finds spanning the Palaeolithic to the Nabatean periods (Charloux, 2018; Charloux & Loreto, 2011, 2013; Loreto & Charloux, 2013), including the discovery of the Camel Site (Charloux et al, 2018). This project included an epigraphic survey of the region, which yielded a large number of ANA (Safaitic, Hismaic, MSH, etc.…”

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Archaeometric studies on the petroglyphs and rock varnish at Kilwa and Sakaka, northern Saudi Arabia

Alamri

Andreae

Guagnin

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Arab Archaeol Epigr

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Rock art, one of the most ancient forms of human artistic expression that has been preserved over the ages since its creation, can give us a window into the minds and lives of our human ancestors. The oldest rock art dates from the Upper Palaeolithic, exemplified by the famous cave paintings in France and Spain, where minimum ages of 41 ka BP (before present) have been documented (Pike et al., 2012), as well as those in the Indonesian archipelago, with minimum ages of 44 ka (Aubert et al., 2019). These images were produced by applying pigments to rock surfaces, creating socalled pictographs, which can be dated either by radiocarbon measurements of the charcoal pigment used or by uranium-series dating of the speleothems that cover the images. Here we focus on another type of rock art: petroglyphs, which are produced by removing dark crusts, so-called rock varnish, from rock surfaces and exposing the lighter coloured host rock underneath. Petroglyphs are found on all continents inhabited by humans (e.g.

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Section: Background: Study Region Climate and Historymentioning

confidence: 99%