Rock art landscapes beside the Jubbah palaeolake, Saudi Arabia

Antiquity

Volumn 87, Issue 337, 2013, Pages 666-683

  Jennings, Richard P ^a   Shipton, Ceri ^b   Al Omari, Abdulaziz ^c   Alsharekh, Abdullah M ^d   Crassard, Rémy ^e   Groucutt, Huw ^a   Petraglia, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Taif Antiquities Office   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Arabia; GIS; Holocene; Landscape; Palaeolakes; Rock art; Tenth millennium bp; Thamudic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883278680     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00049383     Document Type: Article

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