About 12,000 years ago, a human living in the Arabian desert carved “incredibly beautiful” rock art into a cave’s wall. Rock art panels at Jebel Arnaan. The team believes that some of the same groups of people may have made the rock art and the stone tools, but are not quite certain and direct links between the tools’ creators and rock art are difficult to glean as of now. Image: Sahout Rock Art and Archaeology ProjectOne aspect of the art that is clear, and that is the importance of one particular animal commonly associated with desert life. “The rock art often shows male camels during the mating season, which coincides with the wet season.