Recent fieldwork on the south coast of the island of Socotra, Yemen, has revealed a hitherto unknown petroglyph site. This site represents the first rock art to have been recorded on the south coast, an area generally regarded as being unpopulated up until the recent past. The corpus of recorded petroglyphs includes feet, cupules, anthropomorphic figures and geometric motifs, whose designs parallel those from known rock-art sites on the north coast. The importance of this site is that it provides us with the first glimpse into the religious and socio-political lives of the inhabitants of the previously unknown southern half of Socotra. Placing these petroglyphs within the broader context of rock-art studies on the island of Socotra has also allowed us to begin to disentangle the skewed view of Socotra's inhabitants.

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也门索科特拉岛的岩石艺术：在该岛南海岸发现一处岩画遗址。

最近在也门索科特拉岛南海岸进行的实地调查揭示了一个迄今为止未知的岩画遗址。该遗址代表了在南海岸记录的第一个岩画，该地区直到最近才被普遍认为是无人居住的地区。记录的岩画语料库包括脚、罩杯、拟人形象和几何图案，其设计与北海岸已知岩石艺术遗址的设计相似。该遗址的重要性在于它让我们第一次看到了索科特拉岛以前不为人知的南半部居民的宗教和社会政治生活。将这些岩画置于索科特拉岛岩石艺术研究的更广泛的背景下，也让我们开始理清索科特拉岛居民的扭曲观点。