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Yeah , but The first Humans did not cross the yemeni strait, but the sinai one
That's actually wrong.
See this peer-reviewed article named "The Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia", written by the Oxford professor Michael Petraglia, below.
http://www.academia.edu/471425/The_Evolution_of_Human_Populations_in_Arabia
He is professor of human evolution and prehistory at the University of Oxford’s department of archaeology. He is also the principle investigator for the Palaeodeserts Project, a five-year collaboration between the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities and University of Oxford which has involved more than 30 scholars from a dozen institutions and seven countries.
Other articles:
http://www.thenational.ae/uae/herit...ands-helped-early-man-make-leap-out-of-africa
http://www.livescience.com/47555-stone-artifacts-human-migration.html
Besides Sinai is basically Arabia man. Geographically, culturally and in terms of locals. Just next door too.
Green Arabia's key role in human evolution
By Sylvia Smith BBC News, Saudi Arabia
- 16 September 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Image captionWhilst the interior of the Arabian Peninsula is dry today, it was once lush and green
Scientists have been illuminating the vital role played by the Arabian Peninsula in humankind's exodus from Africa. Far from being a desert, the region was once covered by lush vegetation and criss-crossed by rivers, providing rich hunting grounds for our ancestors.
As the sun rises over a vast sand sea in the Arabian Peninsula its first rays illuminate a number of hand axes scattered over the surface of the arid desert.
Nearby, a team of international experts start their day's work picking up and examining remains that are putting a new gloss on the history of human occupation in the area and challenging previously-held theories.
These sites are of global importance... they are the signatures of modern humans moving out of Africa
Ali Ibrahim Al Ghabban, Saudi Commission on Tourism and Natural Heritage
For the first time, the technical expertise of scientists in varied disciplines including palaeontology, geochronology and mapping is being combined to take a holistic look at the role played by Saudi Arabia in the African exodus.
Recent finds are overturning long-held theories by moving it from the periphery right to the centre.
According to Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the first Arab to go into space and currently head of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, the multidisciplinary team have uncovered evidence that our human ancestors' first steps out of Africa were made 50,000 years earlier than was commonly believed.
"The Arabian Peninsula has witnessed dramatic changes in climate," he says.
"In the middle Pleistocene this encouraged early man to make for the then-green peninsula as his destination."
Image captionScientists have mapped the ancient river systems that criss-crossed what is now desert
Wet environment
New research by the international team of experts shows that the Peninsula had human settlements for long periods of time and was not merely a transit point, as was previously thought.
The teams have uncovered several settled periods of wet weather with numerous shifts in environments over the last million years.
One advantage of marrying diverse disciplines under one umbrella is that the various strands can be woven in to a comprehensive common story about the mutating Arabian environment and human history.
What appear to be large dried-up water courses when seen from the ground become major palaeo-rivers viewed from space.
Michael Petraglia, who heads the group and is professor of human evolution and prehistory at the School of Archaeology, Oxford University, says the multidisciplinary approach is paying off.
"Innovative space shuttle technology has allowed the mapping of over 10,000 lakes across Arabia including the now barren Nafud desert," he says.
"This finding links directly with the discovery of the remains of elephants, hippos, crocodile and molluscs at a couple of our sites in the Kingdom."
Image captionProf Michael Petraglia is uncovering a rich history of settlement by early modern humans
Exit plan
Indications are that the earliest lakes had fresh, potable water and were in some cases interconnected. The 50-strong team now believe that there were real routes for animals and humans to follow.
While the main routes into Arabia were from the Horn of Africa into south-west Arabia, the other was across the Sinai. From those two points it is believed that humans were following rivers into the interior.
Ali Ibrahim Al Ghabban, deputy director of the Saudi Commission on Tourism and National Heritage says that with no human skeletal remains in Arabia from the time ranges in question, human history depends on other evidence.
"[It is assessed] on the basis of similarities in stone technology between finds in Arabia and Africa," he says.
"It is reasonable to suppose that anatomically modern humans have been present in Arabia for at least 125,000 years, and possibly a little longer."
Most of the early sites consist of little more than stone tool scatters, and Prof Petraglia's team have unearthed hundreds of these implements fashioned for activities associated with hunting such as scraping skins.
This is a significant stage in human evolution with our forebears showing the ability to think ahead.
"It means that at this stage we are able to kill our prey more easily," says Prof Petraglia. "Working stone in this way indicates forethought and planning. It is also what we see in East Africa."
Among the group of experts are rock art specialists whose work, according to Ali Ibrahim Ghabban may well lead to yet more interesting results.
Rock art sites occur in central Saudi Arabia at the Jubbah palaeolake in the Hail region, where there is excellent evidence for Middle Palaeolithic sites along lake shores.
"These sites are of global importance," Ghabban says.
"They are the signatures of modern humans moving out of Africa."
Other field expeditions are looking into world-rated rock art sites in Jubbah, Shuwaymis, and Nejran, with finds examined in multiple laboratory studies.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34170798
Even if we assume that the Sinai route was the correct one (incorrect) they would have reached Arabia (which is basically next door) sooner than Tunisia almost 2000 km away.
As for the Iranian barking, ignore it guys.
The haplogroup J that both haplgroup J1 and J2 descends from originates in the Arab world more precisely Arabia. Most findings agree with this theory. So no, it was the other way around as with everything else. Not to say that Iran was a wasteland before people from Arabia ventured into it to inhabit it alongside other areas of the Middle East ages ago.
And no matter how much you bark, all genetic tests, as I have also posted and as everyone can google, agrees with the fact that there are only 2 dominating haplogroups in the Arab world (J and E) which is not the case in Iran that is much more mixed which is not strange given all the instances of conquest of Iran and its location. You can cry all you want.
