Modern humans originate from Africa, the continent where they lived more than 200,000 years ago. From there, our ancestors spread to the rest of the world, some 60,000 to 50,000 years ago, according to scientists. But a new study suggests a hitherto unknown stage in humanity’s great migration: the “Arab Standstill.” A kind of ‘stopover’ that lasted up to 30,000 years.
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Our ancestors may have had a 30,000-year ‘stopover’ on the Arabian Peninsula as they moved from Africa to Eurasia
