In ancient Arabia, people dined on sharks and stingrays

'We know that these were not just ordinary proteins, but proteins from the top of the food chain.' Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A 7,000-year-old grave site in present-day Oman indicates that the region's Neolithic communities sometimes turned to an unexpected trade to not only survive, but thrive in the harsh desert landscape. According to findings published in the journal, the people of southern Arabia actually hunted sharks and even stingrays . Since 2020, researchers from the Archaeological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (ARÚ) have investigated Wadi Nafūn, an ancient grave site megalith (a structure built with large stones) used by Neolithic locals during the 5th century BCE.