Life-size carvings of camels have been found in the Saudi Arabian desert, but archaeologists aren't sure who created them and when.
Archaeologists have documented a cluster of carvings depicting camels on a rock outcropping near the southern edge of Saudi Arabia's Nafud desert.
"We learned about the site from another paper — but the panel was difficult to find because its location wasn't precise, and this isn't an easy landscape [to navigate]," study lead author Maria Guagnin, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Germany, told Live Science.
"The outcroppings contain a dense cluster of rock art from many different periods," Guagnin said."You can see that the carvings were done in various phases and are stylistically different." The naturalistic style of the carvings depicting the animals' fur and sex also offer clues about when they were created.
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