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
Use-wear analysis of grinding tools from Jebel Oraf shows subsistence and lifestyle in Neolithic Northern Saudi Arabia
Oldest architectural plans detail desert kites, prehistoric mega structures; the study has been published in PLoS ONE
Uncovering the ritual past of a mustatil, an ancient stone monument in Saudi Arabia; the study has been published in PLoS ONE
Seafood might have helped those prehistoric pioneers, as they could have relied on shellfish to sustain them as they followed migratory routes out of Africa during times of drought
New article suggests wetter climates may have allowed Homo sapiens to expand across the deserts of Central Asia by 50-30,000 years ago