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15 March 2011

Early human migration written in stone tools

Ewen Callaway, Nature, 27/01/2011

A trove of ancient tools discovered in the southeastern Arabian peninsula could point to an early migration of modern humans out of Africa. The stone tools, some up to 125,000 years old, resemble those made by modern humans in Africa around the same period. Their makers crossed the Red Sea, trekked across Arabia during favourable climate conditions, and perhaps went on to settle in Asia, suggests an international team of scientists.

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