PinGGG!...........................
That is really cool.
There are human artifacts that date back 100,000 years in Israel and the Caucasus region in northeast Turkey.
When you look at a map, it is very easy to understand how the Fertile Crescent became the Cradle of Civilization for the descendants of the Out of Africa explorers.
Despite they opening blurb, hominin does not necessarily equate to homo sapiens in this case
They wuz attending the camel races.
I would think anywhere you find oil, fossils and ‘life’ would be plentiful.
I say those are camel tracks.
The issue I have with reports like this is that they state a conclusion which is read as fact by students and most readers without detailing (or even providing much of any perspective on) the layers upon layers of assumptions upon which the conclusion relies.
There’s a perfect boomerang fossil in the center left edge of the photo on the right. One of the camels must’ve dropped it.
Glad that these digs are allowed in Saudi Arabia.
I do know that following Sept. 11, the Saudis clamped down on such investigations, especially regarding the 400s-700s AD, as the archeological record therein is not flattering to Mohammad, demonstrating climate collapse, isolation, and warfare during the 500-700s as coincidental to the rise of Islam.
Mohammad’s rise coincided with severe social, economic and political unrest in the peninsula and the Levant.