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Arabia: from craters to stone circles

Geophysics 2010-11-10 v1

Abstract

The Arabia Shield has a volcanic nature inside. A region of the Western Saudi Arabia is in fact covered with vast fields of lava known as harraat. These lands are spotted by many stone circles and other quite interesting archaeological remains of the Neolithic period, such as the "desert kites", the hunters used to guide the game across the harrah in some corrals. With Google Maps, we can observe both sceneries, the volcanic nature of the land and a portrait of Arabia during the Neolithic times.

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@article{arxiv.1011.2111,
  title  = {Arabia: from craters to stone circles},
  author = {Amelia Carolina Sparavigna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.2111},
  year   = {2010}
}

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Keywords: Satellite maps, Landforms, Artificial landforms, Image processing, Archaeology

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