The monumental stone structures of the Arabian Peninsula have been notoriously difficult to date. Due to their visibility in the landscape, they have suffered from extensive robbing and later reuse, which has compromised dating methodologies. In particular, our understanding of when the elaborate “pendants” (also known as “tailed cairns” or “tailed tower tombs”) of north-west Arabia were first constructed has remained incomplete. Recent work undertaken by the Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – Khaybar project provides some of the first radiometric dates for the pendants of Saudi Arabia. These structures can now be dated as far back as the third millennium BCE, revealing for the first time a hitherto undocumented, large-scale, monumental funerary landscape dating to the Early Bronze Age. These radiocarbon dates bring the advent of the pendant building tradition in line with funerary developments across the wider Arabian Peninsula, and may mark a profound reconfiguring of the wider Harrat Khaybar landscape during the third millennium BCE.

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阿拉伯西北部吊坠墓葬的年代：沙特阿拉伯海巴尔绿洲的第一个辐射测量结果

众所周知，阿拉伯半岛的巨大石头结构很难找到日期。由于他们在景观中的知名度，他们遭受了广泛的抢劫和后来的重复使用，这损害了约会方法。特别是，我们对阿拉伯西北部精心制作的“吊坠”（也称为“尾墓”或“尾塔墓”）何时首次建造的理解仍然不完整。沙特阿拉伯王国空中考古学最近开展的工作——Khaybar 项目为沙特阿拉伯的吊坠提供了一些第一个辐射测量日期。这些结构现在可以追溯到公元前第三个千年，首次揭示了迄今为止未记录的、大规模的、具有纪念意义的葬礼景观，可追溯到青铜时代早期。