Early humans settled in Arabia

Stone Age tools uncovered in Yemen point to humans leaving Africa and inhabiting Arabia perhaps as far back as 63,000 years ago, archaeologists report.

Stone Age tools: pointed flakes, blades, quadrangular flakes, cores. JHE / Elsevier

"The expansion of modern humans out of Africa and into Eurasia via the Arabian Peninsula is currently one of the most debated questions in prehistory," begins an upcoming Journal of Human Evolution report led by Anne Delagnes of France's Université Bordeaux. The archaeologists report from the site of Shi'bat Dihya located in a wadi, or gully, that connects Yemen's highlands to the coastal plains of the Red Sea.

The age of the site puts it squarely at a time when early modern humans were thought to be first emigrating from Eastern Africa to the rest of the world. "The Arabian Peninsula is routinely considered as the corridor where migrating East African populations would have passed during a single or multiple dispersal events," says the study... content.usatoday.com

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Actualización 12-07-12. Los primeros humanos se establecieron en Arabia
"La expansión de los humanos modernos fuera de África y dentro de Eurasia a través de la Península Arábiga es actualmente una de las cuestiones más debatidas en la prehistoria", así comienza un informe dirigido por Anne Delagnes (izquierda), de la Universidad de Burdeos, Francia, y que aparece en Journal of Human Evolution. Los arqueólogos informaron desde el enclave de Shi'bat Dihya, situado en un wadi, o cuenca, que conecta las tierras altas de Yemen con las llanuras costeras del Mar Rojo...