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The history of human environments in Saudi Arabia is often depicted purely as an alternation of more or less arid interludes. However, access to and through the peninsula, and the range and quality of the resources it offered at different times, has owed much to tectonics and sea level oscillations as well as to changes in the atmospheric circulation, and the outcome was rarely the same throughout the peninsula. The Kingdom’s archaeological record thus reflects global as well as local geological and climatic events, and large-scale geophysical and solar fluctuations as well as minor atmospheric disturbances. Human influence is generally dwarfed by these natural processes but in some areas it has been profound and not always beneficial.
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Vita-Finzi, C. (2019). The Changing Human Environments of Eastern Saudi Arabia. In: Martin, M., Damodaran, V., D'Souza, R. (eds) Geography in Britain after World War II. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28323-0_6
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