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09.03.21

Prehistoric climate change channelled human migrations across Arabia

Researchers, supported in part by The Leakey Foundation, have found that early humans spread into Saudi Arabia multiple times over the past 400,000 years.

10.29.18

Earliest Hominin Migrations into the Arabian Peninsula

A new study provides evidence for hominins in ‘Green Arabia’ between 500,000 and 300,000 years ago alongside direct environmental data indicating productive, relatively humid grasslands.

10.14.15

Homo sapiens to the East of Eden

Journal Article

María Martinón-Torres is a Leakey Foundation grantee from the University College London. She and her team were recently published in the journal Nature for their work in Southern China. She has been kind enough to provide us with her summary and thoughts on the significance of this find. The discovery of 47 human teeth with unequivocally modern morphologies from a cave in southern China reveals that our… more »

Archives for migration

Prehistoric climate change channelled human migrations across Arabia

Earliest Hominin Migrations into the Arabian Peninsula

Homo sapiens to the East of Eden