Fertile past
unearthed from sands of Arabia
The Arabian Gulf desert may explain how people traveled long time ago.
NASA provided some satellite images which can help recognizing the changes
before 100,000 years ago. These Images show that the region was rich with green areas, rivers and wood resources. The project manager said that it’s to
figure out how people traveled out of Africa. First of all, after collecting 10.9
million Dh’s, Prof Petraglia team started their investigation in the Empty Quarter.
Unfortunately it’s hard to do discoveries in it due to the windblown but in the
last few years some sites appeared as a key of exploration such as AnNafud and
Jebel Faya. The discoveries led the archeologists to say that African peopled
the world through Bab Almandab strait and Sinaa desert. After that the two steps
are to find the rivers and dig beside them. In addition some organic stuff in
Saudi Arabia referred to a people camping beside lakes while lakes and rivers
buried them over time. Finally we can say the people had to travel out of
Africa likely due to climate change a long time ago.
References
King's
College London - Media coverage: January
- June 2012. (2012, May 17). King's
College London - Home. Retrieved
March 3, 2013, from
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/news/Mediacoverage/2012-January-June.aspx
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