Palaeohydrological corridors for hominin dispersals in the Middle East∼ 250–70,000 years ago

PS Breeze, HS Groucutt, NA Drake, TS White… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The timing and extent of palaeoenvironmental connections between northeast Africa, the
Levant and the Arabian Peninsula during the Middle and Late Pleistocene are critical to …

Human dispersal out of Africa: a lasting debate

S López, L Van Dorp… - Evolutionary …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Unraveling the first migrations of anatomically modern humans out of Africa has invoked
great interest among researchers from a wide range of disciplines. Available fossil …

Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago

HS Groucutt, R Grün, IAS Zalmout, NA Drake… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding the timing and character of the expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa is
critical for inferring the colonization and admixture processes that underpin global …

Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior

M Stewart, R Clark-Wilson, PS Breeze, K Janulis… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor
resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non …

[HTML][HTML] Continuity of the Middle Stone Age into the holocene

EML Scerri, K Niang, I Candy, J Blinkhorn, W Mills… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The African Middle Stone Age (MSA, typically considered to span ca. 300–30
thousand years ago [ka]), represents our species' first and longest lasting cultural phase …

Remote sensing and GIS techniques for reconstructing Arabian palaeohydrology and identifying archaeological sites

PS Breeze, NA Drake, HS Groucutt, A Parton… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Freshwater availability is critical for human survival, and in the Saharo-Arabian desert belt
repeated fluctuations between aridity and humidity over the Quaternary mean the …

Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140,000 to 120,000 years ago and interactions with Homo sapiens

Y Zaidner, L Centi, M Prévost, N Mercier, C Falguères… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Fossils of a Middle Pleistocene (MP) Homo within a well-defined archaeological context at
the open-air site of Nesher Ramla, Israel, shed light on MP Homo culture and behavior …

Culture and convergence: The curious case of the Nubian Complex

HS Groucutt - Culture history and convergent evolution: Can we …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract 'Nubian Levallois' lithic technology has been found from South Africa to India, it
occurs sporadically over a period of more than two hundred thousand years, and it appears …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple phases of human occupation in Southeast Arabia between 210,000 and 120,000 years ago

K Bretzke, F Preusser, S Jasim, C Miller, G Preston… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Changing climatic conditions are thought to be a major control of human presence in Arabia
during the Paleolithic. Whilst the Pleistocene archaeological record shows that periods of …

[HTML][HTML] Regional mapping of groundwater potential in ar rub al khali, arabian peninsula using the classification and regression trees model

S Elmahdy, T Ali, M Mohamed - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mapping of groundwater potential in remote arid and semi-arid regions underneath sand
sheets over a very regional scale is a challenge and requires an accurate classifier. The …