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9,000-Year-Old Advanced Civilization Found in Saudi Arabia<br />
Published: 11:00 AM - 09-08-11<br />
Images from the Al-Maqar Excavation Site<br />
Archeological evidence that an ancient society was domesticating animals including horses 9,000<br />
years ago, 4,000 years earlier than previously thought, has been unearthed at Al-Maqar in central<br />
Saudi Arabia.<br />
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Named the Al-Maqar civilization, around 80 artifacts have been collected from the site, including<br />
mummified skeletons, spinning and weaving tools, and statues of animals such as ostriches,<br />
falcons, and a one-meter-tall bust of a horse. A horse burial has also been discovered.<br />
Ali al-Ghabban, vice president of Antiquities and Museums at the Saudi Commission for Tourism<br />
& Antiquities (SCTA), said these findings challenge the theory that animal domestication took<br />
place 5,500 years ago, which is based on previous excavations in Central Asia.<br />
A statue of an animal of this dimension, dating back to that time, has never been found anywhere<br />
in the world, Ghabban said, according to the Saudi Gazette.<br />
The remains were found in a valley that was formerly a riverbed, close to Abha, in southwestern<br />
Asir province near the Yemen border, an area once known as Arabia Felix.<br />
"The antiquities proved that Al-Maqar was the oldest place in the world so far with people<br />
interested in horses," an official statement said, adding that the artifacts also showed the cultural<br />
activities of people in the region during the Stone Age.<br />
Ghabban said these people used methods of embalming that are totally different from known<br />
processes, the Gazette reported.<br />
"This discovery will change our knowledge concerning the domestication of horses and the<br />
evolution of culture in the late Neolithic period, he said.<br />
The Maqar Civilization is a very advanced civilization of the Neolithic period," he added. "This<br />
site shows us clearly, the roots of the domestication of horses 9,000 years ago.<br />
Ghabban said DNA tests and carbon dating had confirmed the age of the excavated artifacts.<br />
An international team of archeologists published an article in Science in January suggesting<br />
humans may have been present on the Arabian Peninsula as long as 125,000 years ago.<br />
Edited by: Brenda Booth<br />
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