Posted on 08/26/2011 3:24:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Saudi Arabia is excavating a new archeological site that will show horses were domesticated 9,000 years ago in the Arabian peninsula, the country's antiquities expert said Wednesday.
The discovery of the civilization, named al-Maqar after the site's location, will challenge the theory that the domestication of animals took place 5,500 years ago in Central Asia, said Ali al-Ghabban, Vice-President of Antiquities and Museums at the Saudi Commission for Tourism & Antiquities.
"This discovery will change our knowledge concerning the domestication of horses and the evolution of culture in the late Neolithic period," Ghabban told a news conference in the Red Sea port of Jeddah.
"The Maqar Civilization is a very advanced civilization of the Neolithic period. This site shows us clearly, the roots of the domestication of horses 9,000 years ago."
The site also includes remains of mummified skeletons, arrowheads, scrapers, grain grinders, tools for spinning and weaving, and other tools that are evidence of a civilization that is skilled in handicrafts.
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, is trying to diversify its economy away from oil and hopes to increase its tourism.
Last year the SCTA launched exhibitions in Barcelona's CaixaForum museum and Paris's Louvre museum showcasing historic findings of the Arabian Peninsula.
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is trying to diversify its economy away from oil and hopes to increase its tourism.
Heck yeah, with a beach like the one in the picture and a ban on all alcohol sounds like another Cancun!
Saudi Arabia discovers 9,000 year-old civilization, calls it the `First Arab Springtime`
There is barren and then there is the Arabian peninsula.. flew over it at night,, nothing but nothing..
“Saudi Arabia discovers 9,000 year-old civilization”
What, did they open the door and look outside?
“This is what Texas is going to look like very shortly if it doesn’t rain.”
No kidding. 2 out of 3 stock-tanks bone dry. Haven’t seen
that in a while.
I know if you go into Google Earth, you can find stone circles all over Saudi Arabia that were built over 5000 years ago or more that are of unexplained origin.
Oh come on. Who wouldn’t want to vacation in Hell?
Just oes to show (once again) that the most advanced and intelligent civilizations can be replaced by barbarians.
Regarding bit wear, what if they were using cord or leather straps? Would that leave bit wear?
thanks, all. sidebar:
Digging up the Saudi past: some would rather not
Newsday | August 26, 2009 | Donna Abu-Nasr (contribution by Lee Keath)
Posted on 08/27/2009 5:20:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2326172/posts
true dat.
Stone Circles In Saudi Arabia
Science Frontiers | No. 3: April 1978 | William R. Corliss
Posted on 08/25/2004 11:42:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1199778/posts
How many years of repeated drought like this one could Texas agribusiness and independent farming withstand?
Plenty of people love vacationing in Las Vegas. It’s not like you’re forced to stay in the Mojave Desert if you visit Nevada.
Of course, in Vegas you can do practically anything you want, with whomever you like, as lubricate it all with alcohol. You can’t have that sort of fun in Riyadh - which simply fuels their sense of superiority to “decadent” American culture.
Plus you can wear your string bikini at the pool and drink then go gamble.
Well, hon, YOU can wear a string bikini. I’ll just watch.;)
sorry to be so late in replying, went to town.
No, organic bits leave wear as well, whether rope, cords or bone. This is all gone into in great detail in a book called Horse, Wheel, Language, a very good but very technical book by David Anthony.
they put organic bits on horses that had never been bitted before and then checked for wear, and there was wear on certain molars, same as steel or iron bits.
there’s a whole chapter on it, very interesting!
It has to do with the horse chewing the bit, as a kind of nervous habit, shifting it back to the molars and wallowing it around. My horse does that, it’s like they’re chewing gum.
I thought I had seen illustrations of American Indians just putting a cord around the snout, but not into the mouth.
/bingo
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