The mustatils: cult and monumentality in Neolithic north-western Arabia

{'id': 'thomas2021', 'abstract': ', \nNorth-western Arabia is marked by thousands of prehistoric stone structures. Of these, the monumental, rectilinear type known as mustatils has received only limited attention. Recent fieldwork in AlUla and Khaybar Counties, Saudi Arabia, demonstrates that these monuments are architecturally more complex than previously supposed, featuring chambers,…