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Photo: Researchers have found the footprints of people 120,000 years ago.
Researchers claim to have found human footprints in Northwest Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk province 120,000 years ago. The tracks were found in an old dry lake, Gulf News reported.
The Saudi Heritage Authority announced the new archaeological find at a press conference in Riyadh on Thursday.
Where footprints were found, a small group of Homo sapiens would come to a shallow lake to drink water, according to the report. Large species of camels, buffaloes or elephants of the present species often went to the lake to drink water.
A team of Saudi and international archaeologists have found tracks of people, camels, elephants, wildlife and predators in the vicinity of the ancient dry lake.
Said the executive director of the Heritage Authority. Jasser al-Harbish said they found tracks of seven humans, 108 camels, 43 elephants and other animals. The team also found 223 fossils of elephants and sister gazelles. The existence of predators has also been found.
For the past decade, researchers have said that the situation in Saudi Arabia has not always been the same. Many were in green and wet conditions due to natural climate change. This situation arose in the last interglacial era.
Source: Gulf News.
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