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1 December 2014 Camels in Saudi oasis during the last two millennia; the examples of Dûmat al-Jandal (Al-Jawf Province) and al-Yamâma (Riyadh Province)
Hervé Monchot
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By its extraordinary adaptability to live in a hyper arid environment, the camel (Camelus dromaderius) is certainly the animal that best characterizes the Arabian Peninsula. If a rich ethnographic literature exists showing the economic importance of this species through the last two millennia, few archaeozoological remains confirm this importance. This article presents preliminary archaeozoological data (skeletal representation, ageing and sexing bone, bone traces) from two archaeological assemblages from Saudi Arabia: Dûmat al-Jandal (Al-Jawf oasis) and al-Yamâma (Al-Kharj oasis).

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Hervé Monchot "Camels in Saudi oasis during the last two millennia; the examples of Dûmat al-Jandal (Al-Jawf Province) and al-Yamâma (Riyadh Province)," Anthropozoologica 49(2), 195-206, (1 December 2014). https://doi.org/10.5252/az2014n2a03
Received: 1 June 2013; Accepted: 1 June 2014; Published: 1 December 2014
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KEYWORDS
Antiquité tardive et Moyen Age
Arabie saoudite
Archéozoologie
classical and medieval times
détermination de l'âge et du sexe
représentation squelettique
Saudi Arabia
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