Prehistoric knives prove the existence of the first people in Arabia

An international team of researchers have discovered that the production of the oldest evidence, organized stone knives on the Arabian Peninsula has emerged to date. Dated by luminescent techniques in 80,000 years, Results redefine the understanding of Arabia’s colonization And also about the ways used by the first distribution by the first modern people.

After being associated with the regions of Africa and Europe only, these advanced stone tools production techniques were present in the Arab region long before they were imagined. Then, the place was not yet a desert– However, a fertile intersection sought by Homo Sapiens from Africa.

In an recent article in the Journal of Archeology and Anthropological Sciences, the group of archaeologists, ethnologists and historians explains the place of excavation in Jebel Faya, an important archaeological field close to the Oman border, which has been examined for several years.

Great archaeological discovery in Jebel Faya

Paleoclimatic data in the region show that it entered a comprehensive climate that transforms the desert areas of the Arabian Peninsula into productive and livable environments about 130,000 years ago. These positive conditions drew a few prehistoric population to the region. Recently, researchers have searched for traces of these human populations, which focused on known archaeological areas.

Germany’s Jena, the University of Friedrich Schiller. A team led by Knut Bretzke intensified his efforts to Jebel (Arab Mountain) Faaya, a place with 210,000 years of history. Since 2003, researchers have been gathering trench sediments to subsequent examinations through a method of ignition loss that evaluates the changes in the sample weight after heating.

The great discovery reported in this study was the discovery of a series of stones based on approximately 80,000 years. The authors say that the collection of stone objects is described as long chips with parallel edges that can only be shaped by Homo Sapiens. The design of the blades indicates a standardized method, special technique and the deliberate homogeneity of shapes and dimensions.

Migration of Homo Sapiens’s first populations

In a press release. “Our results show that Southern Arabia’s Homo Sapiens populations in Southwest Asia play a different role than the Northern Peninsula.” In other words, the long stage of climatic conditions for human occupation, which began about 80,000 years ago, 130,000 years ago, has ended.

For the first time, excavations showed that different groups of people in North and Southern Arabia have developed different cultures in the transition to the next dry stage. Discoveries, new tips about when and where Homo sapiens They left Africa and spread to Asia. This global distribution occurred in a wave of a few immigrants, one of whom was from the southern edge of the Arabian Peninsula.

Now, with the discovery of stone works, It was possible to leave in the 80,000 years of hospital conditions in the desert of Arabia.. However, although the tools are a clear sign of the existence of existence Homo sapiens In the region, “No human trail of the Paleolithic era in Southern Arabia has been found in Southern Arabia”, Bretzke. However, future excavations are expected to discover human remains.

Prehistoric knives and Homo sapiens

The authors say that after a few years of research in Jebel Faya, the set of stone tools now may have been produced by primitive people planning to migrate. It is possible for prehistoric populations to produce these knives that predict the need for protecting or hunting them during their long journeys.

For Bretzke, perhaps as important as the vehicles found, it was to find out that Arabia had a few permanent rivers and lakes that allowed human populations to develop in their banks. The establishment of populations in this favorable environment has encouraged the development and production of more complex litic technologies.

For the archaeologist, the knives are not not only our understanding of how and when the old people occupied the Arabian Peninsula, but also “rewriting” one of the events of human history: Migration of our species on the way to global colonization out of Africa.

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