A Fossilized Finger Bone May Be From the Earliest Humans on the Arabian Peninsula

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A Fossilized Finger Bone May Be From the Earliest Humans on the Arabian Peninsula

Trilobites

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR APRIL 9, 2018
 

Archaeologists on Monday announced the discovery of a fossilized human finger bone in the desert of Saudi Arabia that they said was 85,000 years old.

If confirmed, the finding would be the first and earliest Homo sapien fossil found on the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the oldest specimen of our species to be directly dated outside of Africa and its doorstep, the Levant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/science/a-fossilized-finger-bone-may-be-from-the-earliest-humans-on-the-arabian-peninsula.html