While there are meagre data to discuss the human footprint upon the landscape, we possess abundant information to describe the land itself. Unfortunately, Palaeolithic investigations throughout the peninsula have lagged sadly behind at the time of writing there are only three dated, stratified Palaeolithic sites that fall within the Upper Pleistocene time period (Shi’bat Dihya, al-Hatab, and Jebel Faya 1). As the corpus of genetic data grows, scholars now realize the prominent role the “Arabian Corridor” must have played in modern human origins. Over the past few years, prehistorians have begun to consider South Arabia with increasingly greater interest.
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