Humans occupied a lava tube called Umm Jirsan, in Saudi Arabia, for thousands of years: bones and artifacts indicate a timeline of herding and agriculture in northern Arabia
Our Homo sapiens ancestors were already living in the north of present-day China around 45,000 years ago, 5,000 years earlier than thought
There is no proof that ‘Homo naledi’ exhibited cognitively advanced behaviors, such as intentional burial of the dead and rock art
Use-wear analysis of grinding tools from Jebel Oraf shows subsistence and lifestyle in Neolithic Northern Saudi Arabia
The recovery of distinctive fluted points from both America and Arabia provides one of the best examples of ‘independent invention’
New article suggests wetter climates may have allowed Homo sapiens to expand across the deserts of Central Asia by 50-30,000 years ago
