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Stone tools suggest Neanderthals once inhabited Arabian deserts

phys.org · 3hShare

Neanderthals are largely associated with colder climates across Eurasia. But researchers know that both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals moved through nearby Southwest Asia between about 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, and Arabia was a crossroads between Africa, Europe and Asia during the Ice Age.

First report: Neanderthals may have trekked through the Saudi Arabian desert 55,000 years ago, farther south than experts thought possible — livescience.com, 2d