Archaeologists publish first comprehensive description of long-term occupation sites in North-West Arabia during Neolithic period

Alula [Saudi Arabia], July 10: This research suggests that the region's inhabitants during the 6th and 5th millennia BCE were more settled than previously thought. They also had a diverse assemblage of cultural material: they herded livestock, made jewellery, and conducted trade along a cultural horizon that extended through the Levant and into eastern Jordan and the Red Sea.