Manayzah Rockshelter during excavation (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Manayzah Rockshelter during excavation

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The sites of Manayzah (Yemen) and Ad-Dahariz (Oman) yielded dozens of fluted points. The Arabian examples date to the Neolithic period, about 8,000 to 7,000 years ago, at least two thousand years later than the American examples.

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Joy McCorriston, OSU

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