It is understood the enclosure was built during the early Neolithic period (3800 BC to 3600 BC).

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The team found that the genetic signatures of people from the Early Neolithic period were either rare or absent from modern populations.

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Juris Zarins, who worked in the early days of archaeology in Saudi Arabia and found tethering stones dating back to the Neolithic period, claims that the site is within an archaeological hot bed.

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