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DOI	10.1111/aae.12191
	Iconographic and archaeometric studies on the rock art at Musayqira, Al-Quwaiyah Governorate, central Saudi Arabia
	Andreae, Meinrat O.; Al-Amri, Abdullah; Al-Jibrin, Faisal Hamad; Alsharekh, Abdullah M.
通讯作者	Andreae, MO (corresponding author), Max Planck Inst Chem, POB 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany.
来源期刊	ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY
ISSN	0905-7196
EISSN	1600-0471
出版年	2021
英文摘要	We investigated the rock art (petroglyphs) in the Al-Quwaiyah Governorate (Saudi Arabia) with focus on the Musayqira site. Iconographic analysis showed a broad variety of human depictions, game animals (ibex, ass, ostrich, lion, etc.), domestic animals (cattle, camel, horse, dog, etc.), inscriptions and abstract symbols. Archaeometric measurements by pXRF provided the areal densities of Mn on petroglyphs and intact rock varnish. Varnish accumulation rates were derived from Mn density measurements on inscriptions of known approximate age. Applying these rates to varnish densities on the petroglyphs yielded age estimates. Some of the rock art was incised in fracture fill rather than true varnish, complicating the interpretation of the data. The combination of iconographic and archaeometric data indicated multiple phases of rock art creation, corresponding to the Late Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Islamic Period, with different artistic traditions, reflecting changing socioeconomic and ecological conditions.
英文关键词	Bronze Age Iron Age Neolithic petroglyphs rock art rock varnish
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Other Gold
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000643725800001
WOS关键词	HOLOCENE HUMID PERIOD ; DESERT VARNISH ; PLEISTOCENE PALAEOART ; TERMINAL PLEISTOCENE ; NEFUD DESERT ; RADIOCARBON ; PETROGLYPHS ; SCALE ; AGE ; OCCUPATION
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/362280
作者单位	[Andreae, Meinrat O.] Max Planck Inst Chem, POB 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany; [Andreae, Meinrat O.; Al-Amri, Abdullah] King Saud Univ, Dept Geol & Geophys, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; [Andreae, Meinrat O.] UCSD, Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA USA; [Al-Jibrin, Faisal Hamad] Minist Culture, Heritage Commiss, Qassim Unit, Buraydh, Saudi Arabia; [Alsharekh, Abdullah M.] King Saud Univ, Coll Tourism & Archaeol, Dept Archaeol, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Andreae, Meinrat O.,Al-Amri, Abdullah,Al-Jibrin, Faisal Hamad,et al. Iconographic and archaeometric studies on the rock art at Musayqira, Al-Quwaiyah Governorate, central Saudi Arabia[J],2021.
APA	Andreae, Meinrat O.,Al-Amri, Abdullah,Al-Jibrin, Faisal Hamad,&Alsharekh, Abdullah M..(2021).Iconographic and archaeometric studies on the rock art at Musayqira, Al-Quwaiyah Governorate, central Saudi Arabia.ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY.
MLA	Andreae, Meinrat O.,et al."Iconographic and archaeometric studies on the rock art at Musayqira, Al-Quwaiyah Governorate, central Saudi Arabia".ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY (2021).