Please note:
The graphic Neolithic Northern Arabia Archaeoastronomical
"Camel Site Decipherment Image" by Andis Kaulins
presented in full in previous postings
was updated on October 20, 2021 with some additions
and improved color management of the figures,
thus, for example, retaining a clear view of the legs of the camel.
See the updated decipherment .
The Neolithic Rock Art "Camel Site" in Arabia Deciphered as Astronomy
Please note: the graphic below
was updated with some corrected star placements on October 20, 2021.
Our Interactive Lesson #6 consists of our independent archaeoastronomical decipherment of the Rock Art so-called "Camel Site" located in Northern Arabia.
This is the last interactive lesson in this series of postings, which we will follow up with some explanatory postings about various aspects of our decipherment below.
There are many unexpected surprises, especially for the era in question.
Look at the decipherment graphic and draw your own conclusions.
The Neolithic Rock Art "Camel Site" in Arabia:
Interactive Lesson #6: Our Full Decipherment Image
The Camel Site Portrays the Night Starry Sky
ca. 4800 B.C. by Figures
Click on the graphic below
to obtain a larger, more readable image!
Please note that the graphic below
was updated on October 20, 2021
with improved color management of the figures
and some corrected star placements
The Neolithic Rock Art Camel Site in Arabia: Interactive Lesson #5: Auriga to the Left of Perseus and Carved Figures and Cupule Stars to the Right of Perseus
The stars of Auriga at the Camel Site are represented by the head of a goatherd with typical headdress, plus the head (and fleece ?) of an adult goat with several goat kids. This corroborates the correctness of our previous placement of the stars of Perseus to the right of Auriga. The fleece viz. the "wool" of Auriga is carved in the rock in an appropriate "ruffled" texture way. The adult goat appears to have several goat kids behind it, plus maybe a goat dog ("sheepdog") to the back left.
The Neolithic Rock Art Camel Site in Arabia: Interactive Lesson #5
Auriga the Goatherd is to the Left of PerseusAuriga includes a Goat head profile and several goat kids, plus goatherd dog.
Cepheus, Cassiopeia, and Andromeda are to the Right of Perseus
Please click on the graphic below to obtain a larger image.
The figures to the right of Perseus are more difficult to assign with certainty, as they are very strongly characterized by the megalithic style of carving figures within figures within figures, which makes identification more speculative.
We think those figures mark stars of what we moderns identify as the stellar constellations of Cepheus, Cassiopeia, wife of Cepheus, and their daughter Andromeda -- a heavenly family as it were -- whose origins, e.g., in Egypt, and even by mainstream archaeology, reach back far and at least into predynastic ("pre-Pharaoh") times. Just how old these heavenly figures assigned to groups of stars in the starry sky actually are -- nobody really knows, but it is clear from the Neolithic Rock Art Camel Site in Arabia that they are much older then previously thought by the mainstream of researchers.
Just as an aside:
We think the term Auriga originally meant "sheep, lamb" as arguably in
what we see as a hypothetical proto-Indo-European root found e.g. in
Latvian j
ē
r-
jēruk-
(=*aurig-) meaning "of (a) lamb".
The Latin meaning of "charioteer" may arise out of a linguistic confusion of "auriga" with e.g. the root of a word like "quadriga" and similar terms, which at their root have the meaning "yoke" in proto-Indo-European, as in archaic Latvian " jūgs, jūg- ".
The next posting in this series is Interactive Lesson #6.
Can you already find the stars portrayed on the left side of the carved rock but not yet identified?
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