Early human settlement in the Arabia less influenced by climate than thought

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An international team of researchers from the Sharjah Archaeology Authority/United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Universities of Tübingen and Freiburg as well as Oxford Brookes/England led by Dr. Knut Bretzke from the University of Tübingen and Prof. Dr. Frank Preusser from the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Freiburg has uncovered startlingly new results that show Paleolithic humans repeatedly occupied the rock shelter site of Jebel Faya in Southern Arabia between 210,000 and 120,000 years ago; shattering previously held ideas about when, and how, humans first moved into Arabia from Africa. The researchers have published their findings in the current issue of Scientific Reports.

Jebel Faya, located in Sharjah, UAE, is one of the most important Paleolithic sites in Arabia. In 2009 excavations revealed human occupation dating back to 125,000 years ago making it the then oldest known human site in Arabia. New archaeological data from Jebel Faya, published in Scientific Reports, indicates that human settlement in Southern Arabia occurred under an unexpected range of climatic conditions and significantly earlier than previously thought.

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-early-human-settlement-arabian-peninsula.html
 
there were also modern humans in the southern peleponesos some 210 ka
I think it is clear by now modern humans went in and out of Africa frequently
furthermore the Persian Gulf was dry land during Glacial Maxima and it probably had drinkable water and good food resources, it may have been a refugium during harsh periods
IMO the 125 ka Jebel Faya people may have been the carriers of Basal Eurasian
 

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