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Apr 17, 2024 · Rock art found near Umm Jirsan shows animals and people. Stewart et al. 2024 / PLoS ONE , CC BY We also found human remains at Umm Jirsan, which we dated to the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods.
The age of these findings indicates the cave, called Umm Jirsan, was regularly used as a dwelling from roughly 10,000 years ago, during the Neolithic, for at least 7,000 years, possibly up to the Bronze Age. The entrance to Umm Jirsan cave. (Green Arabia Project)
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May 8, 2024 · Archaeologists at Umm Jirsan recently found animal bones dating from 400 years to more than 4,000 years ago, and human remains ranging from 150 years to about 6,000 years ago.
Apr 22, 2024 · In the new paper, published last week in the journal PLOS ONE, archaeologists reveal a range of discoveries in Umm Jirsan indicating repeated phases of human occupation of the lava tubes between ...
Apr 18, 2024 · April 18, 2024. By Matthew Ward Agius. A major archaeological investigation has, for the first time, excavated a lava tube in Saudi Arabia that was inhabited by humans up to 10,000 years ago. The...
Apr 17, 2024 · Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered that humans were living in a lava tube at least 7,000 years ago and possibly earlier, a new study finds. The lava tube, called Umm Jirsan, is...
Apr 17, 2024 · Inside the Umm Jirsan lava-tube cave, researchers have found evidence of human occupation dating back 10,000 years. Credit: Green Arabia Project. A first-of-its-kind study in northwestern Saudi...
