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Fossil finger of Homo sapiens found in Saudi Arabia
June 13th, 2018
The first human fossil of Arabia was recovered from the Al Wusta site in the Nefud Desert of Saudi A[...]
Green Arabia award
June 12th, 2018
The Green Arabia Project was honoured to receive the Dr. Abdulrahman Al Ansari Award for contributin[...]
Green Arabia Drilling Workshop
September 29th, 2017
A number of interdisciplinary scientists recently met at the Max Planck, in Jena, Germany, to explor[...]
Core cutting in Potsdam
September 29th, 2017
The Jubbah palaeolake was recently drilled by Saudi Aramco, and supported by the Saudi Commission fo[...]
Drilling of the Jubbah palaeolake
September 29th, 2017
The Jubbah palaeolake has been successfully drilled, providing an unprecedented opportunity to exami[...]
Unravelling the pattern, impacts and drivers of early modern human dispersals from Africa
September 29th, 2017
A team of researchers has been awarded a grant by the Leverhulme Trust to explore the migrations of [...]
Fossil of extinct elephant found in the Arabian Peninsula
May 23rd, 2016
The Pleistocene vertebrate record of the Arabian Peninsula is poorly known. In our latest paper we r[...]
Lions and leopards: estimating early Holocene prey biomass from the rock art of Shuwaymis
May 18th, 2016
The prehistoric environment of northwestern Arabia remains largely unknown. In this paper we use the[...]
Using 3D photogrammetry to analyse handaxes
May 9th, 2016
Increasingly, 3D artefact models are being used as the foundation for analysing shape diff[...]
Oxford and Cambridge collaboration
April 27th, 2016
Palaeodeserts team members from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, along with other collabora[...]
How did Homo sapiens expand out of Africa into Eurasia?
April 19th, 2016
Current fossil, genetic, and archaeological data indicate that Homo sapiens originated in Africa in [...]
The western Nefud from the air
April 19th, 2016
In January 2016, colleagues from the Palaeodeserts project and Saudi Geological Survey (SGS) perform[...]
Hominin occupations of the Arabian Peninsula
March 22nd, 2016
The Pleistocene archaeological record of the Arabian Peninsula is increasingly recognized as being o[...]
Revealing the Stone Age History of Saudi Arabia
March 21st, 2016
Today you would not survive the hostile deserts of Arabia without desalination plants and four-wheel[...]
Reconstructing ancient rivers and lakes in Arabia
March 21st, 2016
Freshwater availability is critical for human survival, and its availability in the Arabian Peni[...]
Acheulean landscapes in the Arabian Peninsula
March 1st, 2016
Our systematic survey of Acheulean occupation evidence at Dawadmi, in the heart of the Arabian Penin[...]
Symposium at Society for American Archaeology conference
February 29th, 2016
Palaeodeserts team member Huw Groucutt (University of Oxford) is running a symposium at the Society [...]
Symposium on Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene
February 23rd, 2016
The Wenner-Gren Symposium #153 on “Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene" will be held [...]
Palaeodeserts Presentation at Red Sea Conference, Jeddah
February 22nd, 2016
Michael Petraglia gave a talk entitled "Green Arabia, Blue Arabia: Examining Human Colonisation and [...]
Rock art sheds new light on the Neolithic transition in Arabia
February 22nd, 2016
Our study of the engraved rock art recorded on 254 panels in Shuwaymis, Ha'il Province, has shed mor[...]
Human occupation of the Arabian Empty Quarter more than 80,000 years ago
February 16th, 2016
Recent excavations by the Palaeodeserts team in the Arabian Empty Quarter, the largest sandy desert [...]
Working with the Saudi Geological Survey
February 15th, 2016
Collaboration between the Palaeodeserts Project and the Saudi Geological Survey (SGS) continued on t[...]
HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman visits rock art team
February 11th, 2016
His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, President of the Saudi Commission for To[...]
Saudi Shura Council hear more about early Arabians
February 10th, 2016
Dr. Prince Khalid Abdullah Mohammad Moqrin Al-Meshari Al Saud and other members of the Saudi Shura C[...]
Archaeology in the Nefud - 2016 season
February 9th, 2016
Three weeks of archaeological survey and excavation were conducted in the Nefud Desert, east of Taym[...]
Saudi students participate in Palaeodeserts fieldwork
February 4th, 2016
A survey of rock art and associated archaeological sites was carried out in Jubbah, Ha’il Province. [...]
Palaeodeserts work reported in BFSA Bulletin
May 5th, 2015
The journal of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia, The BFSA Bulletin, has reported on th[...]
MBI Al Jaber Foundation supports the Palaeodeserts Project
April 16th, 2015
Michael Petraglia gave the first joint British Foundation for the Study of Arabia / MBI Al Jaber Fou[...]
Collaboration with Palaeontology Unit, Saudi Geological Survey
March 3rd, 2015
The Palaeodeserts team and the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities began working with the P[...]
Saudi National Day Celebrations
September 29th, 2014
Professor Michael Petraglia and Dr Ash Parton were invited to Saudi National Day celebrations at the[...]
HRH The Prince of Wales introduces Green Arabia Conference 2014
April 10th, 2014
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HRH Prince Sultan Bin Salman at Oxford's Green Arabia conference
April 10th, 2014
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Palaeodeserts invited to Kensington Palace
April 10th, 2014
Prof. Michael Petraglia and Dr. Ash Parton were invited to a Gala Dinner at Kensington Palace on May[...]
Visit to Saudi Geological Survey in Jeddah
April 10th, 2014
Michael Petraglia recently visited the Saudi Geological Survey (SGS) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The S[...]
Green Arabia on Live Broadcast
April 10th, 2014
The entire 2 hours of the Green Arabia conference, held on the evening of April 2nd, was broadcast l[...]
Green Arabia conference concludes
April 10th, 2014
The Green Arabia conference was held at St John's College, University of Oxford, from the 2nd to 4th[...]
Rick Potts delivers keynote talk
April 10th, 2014
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Keynote: "The Peopling of Arabia"
April 9th, 2014
Prof. Michael Petraglia delivered a keynote talk, "The Peopling of Arabia", as part of the opening c[...]
Green Arabia conference - registration
February 20th, 2014
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Tayma field season wildly successful
February 10th, 2014
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Leakey Board members visit Saudi Arabia
February 10th, 2014
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Whalen Archives received in Oxford
February 10th, 2014
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Presentation at the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins
February 6th, 2014
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Survey and excavation of Acheulean sites in Dawadmi completed
February 6th, 2014
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Petraglia invited to Roads of Arabia exhibit in Houston
February 6th, 2014
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HRH Prince Sultan visits our field project in Dawadmi
February 6th, 2014
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Arabia - The Central, but Missing Link in World Prehistory
November 20th, 2013
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Conference – Green Arabia
November 19th, 2013
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International Meeting in France
November 18th, 2013
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Rock art article featured on front cover of Antiquity journal
September 25th, 2013
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