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🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
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.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic (Tihama Neolithic coastal, 4000–3000 BCE) · Tihama coastal Neolithic (Shell Midden / Jizan foragers)
33 Red Sea littoral kites (4th mill. BCE) with shell middens in pits — unique coast-hunting interface at Jizan.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
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.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic to Middle Bronze (Arabian bifacial to Wadi Sawawin–Qurayyah) · South Arabian Neolithic–Bronze Ibex hunters
38 Al Haql kites (5th–2nd mill. BCE) in 3 chains along Najran Ibex escarpment — southernmost Saudi kite province.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Neolithic · Northwest Arabian Neolithic
37 high-elevation basalt kites (8000–5000 BCE) on Harrat Rahah — NW Saudi volcanic field.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic) · Northern Arabian Late Neolithic (Hisma facies)
Northern mustatil concentration on the Hisma sandstone plateau (1,050 m, 28.50°N 36.80°E) north of Tabuk, extending the Harrat-based mustatil province south-eastward into sandstone.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (Arabian Humid Period) · Northwest Arabian Neolithic pastoralists
52 Late Neolithic mustatils (5000–4500 BCE) — northernmost Saudi platform ritual field.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (Arabian Neolithic) · Central Arabian Late Neolithic
Easternmost mustatil province (620 m, 25°39′N 46°39′E) on Thumamah limestone plateau 80 km NE of Riyadh, pushing mustatil distribution 400 km east of Dawadmi core.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Early Holocene moist phase (Neolithic) · Hijaz Neolithic lava-field hunters
Volcanic-field kites (1,100 m, 27°24′N 37°16′E) of the Harrat ar-Rahah-'Uwayrid cluster (Global Volcanism Program 27.408N 37.279E, 1700 m cluster).
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Hydraulic works
Iron Age to Early Islamic (Assyrian to Islamic) · North Arabian oasis / Assyrian sphere
Al-Jawf depression (580 m, 29°51′N 40°00′E central Sirhan) qanat field tapping western Widyan tributaries (900-1100 m) and basalt plateau 800-900 m to supply Dumat al-Jandal (ancient Adummatu) at…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Najd Late Neolithic
24 easternmost kites (6000–3500 BCE) on Qassim limestone scarp — sand-sea margin.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic · Central Najd Neolithic pastoralists
29 Najd mustatil platforms (4900–4200 BCE) — easternmost Saudi rectangular ritual field.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Ancient city
Nabataean to Roman (1st c BCE–106 CE annexation; tombs 1st c CE) · Nabataean / Roman / Thamudic
Southernmost major Nabataean city on incense route, Hegra preserves 111 rock-cut tombs with facades akin to Petra (but freestanding massifs), hydrological wells, and Roman annexation inscriptions.