[Rockhounds] Life-sized camel engravings on the southern edge of the Nefud desert.

[Paul]

Life-size images of extinct camel species
found carved into stones in Saudi Arabia
Bob Yirka, PhysOrg, September 4, 4023
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-life-size-images-extinct-camel-species.html

Mysterious and 'beautifully carved' life-size
camel carvings discovered in Saudi Arabian desert
Jennifer Nalewicki, LiveScience, September 31, 2023
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-and-beautifully-carved-life-size-camel-carvings-discovered-in-saudi-arabian-desert

The paywalled paper is:

Guagnin, M., Shipton, C., Stileman, F., Jibreen,
F., AlSulaimi, M., Breeze, P.S., Stewart, M.,
Hatton, A., Drake, N., Jha, D.K. and Al-Tamimi,
F., 2023. Before the Holocene humid period:
Life-sized camel engravings and early occupations
on the southern edge of the Nefud desert.
Archaeological Research in Asia, 36, no. 100483.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352226723000557

Yours,

Paul H.