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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Stewart M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7500939 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20200918 38
The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non-African people. Here, we report hominin and non-hominin mammalian tracks from an ancient lake deposit in the Arabian Peninsula, dated within the last interglacial. The findings, it is argued, likely represent the oldest securely dated evidence for <i>Homo sapiens</i> in Arabia. The paleoecological evidence indicates a well ...[more]