New conclusions have arisen from 'the ritual deposition of animal horns and upper cranial element within the mustatil.'
Partially articulated human remains located inside the cist.
The mustatils, prehistoric monuments made of sandstone walls that are found in northwest Saudi Arabia, have recently revealed a piece of new information about ancient human social practices.by Melissa Kennedy of the University of Western Australia, Perth, and her team suggested that mustatils may have been utilized for ritualistic purposes involving the placement of animal offerings, according to recent discoveries in the city of Al-Ula.
These fragments were largely grouped together around a big upright stone that was thought to be a betyl.
The mustatil and maybe the other structures were constructed between 5300 and 5000 BCE during the Holocene Humid Period, when the region was a grassland subject to regular droughts.
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