حالة البحث الأثري لفترة العصر الحجري القديم في المملكة العربية السعودية : دراسة تقويمية

Abstract EN

Saudi Arabia has a great cultural heritage in our understanding of the Paleolithic age (1 million years-10.000 BC) in the Arabian Peninsula despite the relative delay in serious archaeological research compared to other periods.

Although many archaeological surveys were conducted, they were not even regular until recently.

Our knowledge of Saudi Arabia during the Stone Age often comes from sites representing multiple Sages of human sediments, lacking absolute dates and palaeoenvironmental information.

The attribution of these dispersed sites to cultural Sages is usually a reflection of the analyzes of selected collections of materials that are not based on a clear methodology.

However, the archaeological record of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia composed of data collection of great importance.

Recent discoveries of archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia have shown the importance of the region to early prehiSoric research on the cultural and environmental aspects.

This will be discussed in detail in this paper.