Quote Originally Posted by Ibrahim View Post
as for that spear, its more likely just that-a spear. it could easily have been a lance or spear used overhand as it is a javelin, so this petroglyphs can't really be regarded as evidence of one or the other. this, with what was written regarding arabians by strabo (the roman expidition to saba), the pre-islamic poems, etc, convince me that javelins weren't particularly common. (don't you wish they drew better than that?)
The thing is that when it comes to petroglyphs, we usually see lances and spears hold undergand when it come to cavalry. And that spears or javelins held over hand seem rarer, but are also depicted in combination of camels. As camels fighting with overhand spears look wierd to me, I'd suggest those would be javelins.

Also what records are you basing of that the javelin wasn't a common weapon in Arabia? I'm quite curious really.