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Maria Guagnin

@mariaguagnin.bsky.social

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Rock art researcher and archaeologist. Into all things Neolithic and palaeoenvironment.

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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 19/12/2025

Rock art in Saudi Arabia shows humans adapted to an arid Arabian Desert ~12,000 years ago, aided by seasonal lakes. A study in @natcomms.nature.com reveals life-sized engravings and stone tools: spklr.io/63325BIU2l 🏺 #skystorians

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Science Magazine @science.org · 01/10/2025

Hunter-gatherers may have used engravings to find water in the parched deserts of the Arabian Peninsula 12,000 years ago. scim.ag/4nql413

Prehistoric camel art pointed to precious water sources in the Arabian Desert

Hunter-gatherers may have used the engravings to find water 12,000 years ago

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Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Some nice news coverage by @science.org of our recent discoveries of 12,000-year-old life-sized camel engravings in rock art of #SaudiArabia. @mariaguagnin.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Prehistoric camel art pointed to precious water sources in the Arabian Desert

Hunter-gatherers may have used the engravings to find water 12,000 years ago

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Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New discovery! Here @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and our team report on 12,000-year-old life-size camel rock art engravings in the Saudi desert. #GreenArabia @griffith.edu.au www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Maria Guagnin @mariaguagnin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Our new paper is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 12,000 year old camel engravings marked water sources in the desert. A great team effort @mdpetraglia.bsky.social @finnstileman.bsky.social @stewiestewart.bsky.social et al!

Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition | Nature Communications

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