The picturesque mountains of Fujairah may swarm amongst stone climbers together with campers today merely thousands of years ago, they were the sheet for the people who lived there.
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| Petroglyphs on the stone faces of Fujairah [Credit: Wam] |
According to the Fujairah Tourism together with Antiquities Authority, FTAA, to a greater extent than than 31 petroglyph sites convey been institute inwards the emirate, including sites inwards Wadi Saham, Hassat al-Risoom, Wadi ah-Shanah, together with Wadi al-Hayl.
Some seem to hold upwards stone oil scratchings on a stone surface, others pull animals such every bit camels together with leopards and, inwards about places, stick figures of humans tin laissez passer notice every bit good hold upwards seen — this is Fujairah’s open-air fine art gallery believed to appointment dorsum to the Bronze Age, to a greater extent than than 3,000 years ago.
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| Archaeologist Dr Michele Ziolkowski, pictured inwards 2010, points to 1 of the many petrogylphs she has discovered and mapped many inwards Wadi Al Hayl close Fujariah metropolis [Credit: Jeff Topping/The National] |
Among the motifs discovered is a collective trip the low-cal fantastic scene that provides an insight into the region’s historical development, including agricultural practices.
Much of the function on the petroglyphs was carried out over the past times 25 years past times UAE resident Dr Michele Ziolkowski, who personally recorded to a greater extent than than 500 private petroglyphs across Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah together with Hatta.
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| A petroglyph depicting an beast inwards Fujairah [Credit: Wam] |
She was inwards a race against fourth dimension to honour together with document the stone fine art earlier it is lost to quarrying, mining together with structure work. In 2010, Dr Ziolkowski recorded 119 petroglyphs inwards Wadi Daftah earlier many were destroyed past times route construction.
The FTAA is at nowadays working to save these sites for futurity generations to larn nearly the country’s history.
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| Dr Michele Ziolkowski holds a medallion amongst the shape of this petroglyph engraved on it in Wadi Al Hayl close Fujariah City [Credit: Jeff Topping/The National] |
"There are eleven petroglyph sites that convey undergone preservation work. Other sites are undergoing preservation to ensure they are well-maintained thus futurity generations tin laissez passer notice convey access to their country’s history. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 large issue of carvings together with stone paintings convey been discovered that they are distinctive to the history of the UAE, providing insight into ancient civilisations together with the environs inwards which they lived. We strive to keep an up-to-date inventory of the petroglyphs,” he said.
The few surviving mount tribes keep that the markings serve a much simpler role than scientists may believe.
Mohammed Al Shehhi, a fellow member of the prominent Al Shuhouh tribe, previously told The National that he uses several of the petroglyphs every bit landmarks to honour his ain ancestral dwelling line of piece of occupation solid inwards the RAK mountains whenever he together with his line of piece of occupation solid unit of measurement hike there.
"They are to a greater extent than ofttimes than non wusum [tribal markings] where areas belonging to detail tribes were marked inwards a sure enough agency every bit a message to other mount tribes," said Mr Shehhi, who was 72 years one-time at the time. It is simple. It is non a coincidence they are ofttimes institute close burial sites or tombs. They are clearly connected to the tribes. Experts e'er drive to complicate it. If a camel was drawn on a rock, together with thus most probable the pregnant of the drawing was a camel, mayhap a dear pet."
Source: The National [October 13, 2018]
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