Veiled beneath the Persian Gulf, a once-fertile landmass may have
supported some of the earliest humans outside Africa some 75,000 to
100,000 years ago, a new review of research suggests.
At its peak, the floodplain now below the Gulf would have been about the
size of Great Britain, and then shrank as water began to flood the area.
Then, about 8,000 years ago, the land would have been swallowed up by
the Indian Ocean, the review scientist said.
The study, which is detailed in the December issue of the journal
Current
Anthropology, has broad implications for aspects of human history. For
instance, scientists have debated over when early modern humans exited
Africa, with dates as early as 125,000 years ago and as recent as 60,000
years ago (the more recent date is the currently accepted paradigm),
according to study researcher Jeffrey Rose, an archaeologist at the
University of Birmingham in the U.K.
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