More recent field work has sampled new Palaeolithic sites in Oman, under covering lithic assemblages with typological affinities to industries in the Levant, India and the Horn of Africa, suggesting there were a series of hunter-gathers range expansions into southern Arabia from all three refugia over the last quarter of a million years.
neanderthalensis and potential links with populations from Northern Africa. There is also evidence of Middle Paleolithic Mousterian and Aterian technologies in Arabia suggesting the possibility of an expanded southern border for H. ergaster may have been making forays into this region. From an archaeological perspective, Lower Paleolithic Oldowan industries found in the Arabian Peninsula indicated that, presumably, H. However, after the southern dispersal route of modern humans across the Bab el Mandeb Strait was proposed and further developed, multidisciplinary interest on this region has dramatically increased in the search for traces of such putative early southern dispersals across the Arabian threshold. However, southern Arabian late Neolithic excavations revealing sorghum and date palm cultivation attest to earlier influences from East Africa and South western Asia. The arid Arabian Peninsula can be viewed as a geographic cul de sac and passive recipient of Near East cultural and demic expansions since the Bronze Age.
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