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"Earliest Hunters" and "Early Oasis Dwellers" styles;
petroglyphs of Old Kingdom times are much less frequent. Most
of the petroglyphs depict animals. Among them the mostfrequent

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are giraffes with oryx antelopes a close second. Reedbuck, gazelle,
hartebeeste, gerenuk, barbary sheep, warthog, ostrich and domestc
cattle are represented in much smaller numbers. Future studies of
the typology, style and chronology of the petroglyphs will
undoubtedly shed light on the dynamics of the fauna of Eastern
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