Early humans settled in Arabia. By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY Updated 2012-07-09 6:01 PM Stone Age tools uncovered in Yemen point to humans leaving Africa and inhabiting Arabia perhaps as far back as 63,000 years ago, archaeologists report.
Stone Age tools: pointed flakes, blades, quadrangular flakes, cores. "The expansion of modern humans out of Africa and into Eurasia via the Arabian Peninsula is currently one of the most debated questions in prehistory," begins an upcomingJournal of Human Evolution report led by Anne Delagnes of France's Université Bordeaux. Human Evolution Discoveries in Iraq. The entrance to Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq.
Image courtesy of Flickr user Kurdistan Photo كوردستان Iraq is the home of the Fertile Crescent, the Cradle of Civilization. But the country’s importance in human history goes back even further, to the time of the Neanderthals. In 1951, American archaeologist Ralph Solecki discovered Neanderthal remains in Shanidar Cave. The cave sits in the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, about 250 miles north of Baghdad. Kurdistan the oldest place on earth PROVEN. Shanidar cave - Iraqi Kurdistan.