Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia.

ABSTRACT: Knowledge about environmental change and the evolutionary history of hominins in Arabia has been rapidly developing over the last two decades. Interdisciplinary research on humans and environments across the vast and heterogenous landmass of the Arabian Peninsula remains, however, highly spatially uneven. Here we present the results of archaeological, hydro-geological, and palaeontological research in inland northeastern Arabia, a poorly studied area with diverse landscape features including caves, palaeorivers, and chert outcrops. Hominin use of the landscape appears to be sparse in comparison to other regions of Arabia, though archaeological evidence spanning from the Lower Palaeolithic to the historic era was identified, including finds from the Middle Palaeolithic, which is the most we

SUBMITTER: Groucutt HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12633919 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature