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120,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Found in Saudi Arabia | Archaeology, Paleoanthropology – Sci-News.com

An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has found ancient human and animal footprints on the surface of an ancient lakebed in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia.

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An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has found ancient human and animal footprints on the surface of an ancient lakebed in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. The footprints, dated to roughly 120,000 years ago, are contemporaneous with an early Homo sapiens out-of-Africa migration and represent the earliest evidence of our species in the Arabian Peninsula.
Three selected human tracks and their digital elevation models. Image credit: Klint Janulis, University of Oxford.

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