الأسلحة فى الفن الصخري بالمملکة العربية السعودية

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Lecturer in Ancient History - Faculty of Arts - University of Damanhour

Abstract

    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia knows rock art in the pre-writing period, which consisted of a painting and inscriptions for animals and human forms. The existence of the rock art continued in the Kingdom after the human knowledge of writing.
     According to the subject of my research (The weapons in the Rock Art of the Saudi Arabia Kingdom); it dealt with weapons such as the bow and arrow, spear, Boomerang all of which used by hunters to catch Ox, goats, ostriches, camels and birds to get his food. Men of this period used another way of hunting which is tamed camel to ride for chasing ostriches.
    Beside that bow and arrow, and a spear weapons used in the human struggle, and also connected with human forms depicted hugely, perhaps for being consecrated or for being leaders of the tribes or rulers of big areas.

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