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AlUla South Mustatil Cluster
Late Neolithic Arabian mustatil horizon · Northwest Arabian pastoralists
14 mustatil enclosures (5180-5050 BCE) at AlUla-Sharaan, densest sandstone cluster with betyl solstice alignment.
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Late Neolithic Arabian mustatil horizon · Northwest Arabian pastoralists
14 mustatil enclosures (5180-5050 BCE) at AlUla-Sharaan, densest sandstone cluster with betyl solstice alignment.
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Late Neolithic (Arabian) · Uthaib lava-field hunter-ceremonialists
Hybrid of 18 mustatils and 8 kites stratigraphically entangled on Harrat Uthaib lava south of Tabuk.
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Late Neolithic, Arabian Mustatil horizon · Northwest Arabian Neolithic pastoralists
19 high-altitude mustatil enclosures (5300-5000 BCE) on Harrat Uwayrid basalt at 1320 m, northernmost field.
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Neolithic, Arabian Late Neolithic 5200-5000 BCE · North Arabian Late Neolithic pastoralists
12 Neolithic mustatil ritual enclosures (5000-5200 BCE) on Tayma sabkha margin with causeway gates aligned to Jebel Ghunaym.
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Late Neolithic Arabian · North Khaybar pastoral ceremonialists
Northern Khaybar mustatil line: 22 early Neolithic ritual platforms along 8.4 km lava–sandstone beach ridge.
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Neolithic (pottery Neolithic, 5000 BCE) · Late Neolithic Arabian pastoralists
70 mustatil rectangles (5000–3500 BCE)—communal cattle-cult enclosures on the Jowf plain.
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Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (Neolithic pastoral to Early Bronze Wadi Sawawin) · Arabian Neolithic (Khaybar Neolithic pastoralists, Wadi Sawawin)
45 mustatils + 80 pendants + 12 kites (5200–3000 BCE) — densest Harrat Khaybar ritual-hunting palimpsest.
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Neolithic (Late Pottery Neolithic, 5300–5000 BCE) · Northwest Arabian Neolithic (Uwayrid pastoral)
52 Uwayrid North mustatils (5320–5070 BCE) — northernmost and only bichrome-basalt–sandstone variants.
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Late Neolithic (Northern Arabian pastoral) · Wadi Sirhan Neolithic
Broad lowland mustatil corridor (560 m, 29°48′11″N 39°52′56″E Dumat al-Jandal TM Geo 29.803206,39.882216 Wadi Sirhan runs 140 km from Azraq to Jawf) along the central topographic depression of Wadi…
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Late Neolithic (Arabian Humid Period) · Northwest Arabian Neolithic pastoralists
52 Late Neolithic mustatils (5000–4500 BCE) — northernmost Saudi platform ritual field.
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Late Neolithic · Central Najd Neolithic pastoralists
29 Najd mustatil platforms (4900–4200 BCE) — easternmost Saudi rectangular ritual field.
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Late Neolithic (~5500–3500 BCE) · Neolithic Arabian pastoralist
More than 1,600 elongated rectangular courtyard monuments – Arabic mustatil – stitched across 200,000 km² of Saudi desert between the Nefud and Red Sea, rendered visible only by satellite.