Was Musudan's isolated Stone Lakers the original * * * people?

Two hours' drive from Dubai, there is an isolated tribe living in the Musandan Mountains. These people seem to have nothing to do with anyone else on the peninsula culturally, but they are probably its aborigines.

According to Paolo Costa, the former head of Oman's cultural relics department, they are "mountain people" and the Stone Lakers are a mystery.

1000 years ago, human beings "walked out of Africa" for the first time and entered * * *, followed by Yemenis, Saudis, Persians, Portuguese, and finally the British, until Oman became independent in 1749 and unified in 197 1 * *.

Therefore, with the history of aggression and anti-aggression, it is not easy to find out who was there first. Musandan, the long finger on the * * * peninsula, which is advancing towards Iran, has always been too rough to be invaded, and its people are also famous for their hostility towards tourists.

As a result, its people are largely isolated from the rest of the South.

The gap is covered by a complicated stone bridge made by hand, and it is completely fixed in place by gravity.

According to a guidebook, this is a very, very serious 8- 12-hour hike, so novices should not try it.

Shihu mountain area is protected by steep cliffs.

David Millar, Shihu is different from neighboring countries such as UAE and Oman in culture and language.

Unlike most UAE people who seek their roots from Bedouins, Shihu people are not nomads in the desert, but farmers.

Terraced fields enable Shihu people to grow crops at high altitude.

In David Miller, they harvest two crops from these heavily guarded fields every year, but they also fish in summer to supplement this.

The modern Shihu Village, located in Musandan, is an ephemeral building made of coral and palm leaves.

The linguist David Millar often said that the language spoken by Shihu people has nothing to do with other languages, but this is not the case.

Although their language is often difficult for other Gulf people to understand, it is actually a dialect of * * *, and it has evolved its own way after hundreds of years of isolation.

A golden scarf and veil worn in southern Iran is called battula, which is similar to the headscarf traditionally worn by Shiite women. (CC 2.0) Another interesting difference is the traditional West Lake costume.

West Lake people don't like the white Jitaila headdress worn by Gulf people, but prefer the colorful headdress. Ears are common in Oman and southern Yemen, while Bedouins carry ceremonial machetes named khanjar, and Shihu people have a long-handled axe, which they call jerz.

Compared with the stone age axe, it is speculated that Shi Hu people may be some prehistoric people, a kind of sweat armor and a traditional dagger in Oman.

? According to their own tradition, in the migration tide in the 2nd century AD, the Shihu people entered * * *, and under the rule of Malik Ben Fahem, the * * * tribal group came to the southeast of * * * from Yemen, but there is no conclusive evidence to prove this, such as Yemeni surname.

Similarly, language analysis shows that there is no indication of the influence of Iran, Baluchistan or countries east of the Gulf of Oman.

Archaeological findings show that the first batch of people "from Africa" entered Musandan via Yemen and Oman, and the stone axe found not far from Jebel Fa Ya is evidence.

Are Shi Hu people their descendants? Genetic research on their DNA will undoubtedly reveal this situation, but before that, it is really a mystery. Close-up picture: derivative.

Women wearing veils and scarves (CC by 2.

0) and Kul Ashsham in Musandan Peninsula, Oman.

(CC: SA 3.

0), author david miller's Beyond Dubai: Searching for the Lost City of the Emirates. David miller studied archaeology and glaciology at Bristol University and Cambridge University before becoming a science journalist and editor in London.

However, poverty soon pushed him to the stone industry.