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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5313/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Prehistoric Arabia Brought Early Humans from Africa' data-article-id='5867'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='15958'>New evidence suggests that the desert of the Arabian Peninsula once had water and plants that brought early humans and large animals from Africa.</span> <span data-start-time='15958' data-end-time='33854'>Until 10 years ago, scientists trying to rebuild the story of early human movements out of Africa knew little about the Arabian Peninsula.</span> <span data-start-time='33854' data-end-time='42354'>Much more is known about early human settlements in the Levant region. </span> <span data-start-time='42354' data-end-time='54708'>The Levant is the area that includes modern-day Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and parts of Syria.</span> <span data-start-time='54708' data-end-time='64167'>Archaeological research has been carried out there for more than one hundred years.</span> <span data-start-time='64167' data-end-time='78833'>But a recent study published in Nature suggests that the Arabian Peninsula may have served as a bridge between Africa and Eurasia.</span> <span data-start-time='78833' data-end-time='85417'>Michael Petraglia is one of the writers of the study. </span> <span data-start-time='85417' data-end-time='97813'>He is an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. </span> <span data-start-time='97813' data-end-time='110208'>The research team included scientists from Germany, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Britain and other countries.</span> <span data-start-time='110208' data-end-time='123563'>He said, “Arabia has not been part of the story of early human migration because so little work was done there before.”</span> <span data-start-time='123563' data-end-time='130479'>Huw Groucutt is also based at the Max Planck Institute. </span> <span data-start-time='130479' data-end-time='145708'>He travels to archaeological places in the northern Arabian Peninsula where rolling sand dunes, or hills, extend as far as the eye can see.</span> <span data-start-time='145708' data-end-time='163479'>Scientists started to look closely for archeological remains in the region after satellite images showed signs of prehistoric lakes in the areas that are now desert. </span> <span data-start-time='163479' data-end-time='180104'>“We noticed color patterns made by ancient lakes sand dunes are kind of orange-colored, while ancient lakes are tinted white or gray,” said Groucutt.</span> <span data-start-time='180104' data-end-time='195000'>Over the past 10 years, archeologists have found stone tools from several periods of prehistoric settlement by early human groups. 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