The MIND-BENDING Ancient Discovery in Arabia

In most of Eurasia, they vanished by 250,000 to 300,000 years ago, but in Africa and South Asia, Acheulean tools persisted long enough to overlap with early Homo sapiens. The youngest Acheulean tools are in West Africa and India, dated to 120,000 years ago, and a new find in Arabia is dated to 200,000 to 250,000 years. New discoveries at sites such as Saffaqah and Dawadmi in central Saudi Arabia are forcing a shift in how we think about these stone scatters on the desert plains. Rather than the work of “lazy Homo erectus,” they may represent something far more poignant: the final survival of heidelbergensis-like humans, robust and intelligent archaic people who, cut off from the technological revolutions stirring elsewhere, endured in Arabia until around 200,000 years ago.

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