Sharjah is the cradle of modernism.
Die Fundstelle erbrachte die ältesten Hinweise auf anatomisch moderne Menschen.
But scientists behind the latest study argue that the people who made tools at Jebel Faya 125,000 years ago are ancestral to humans living outside Africa today.Professor Uerpmann said the estimates of time using genetic data were "very rough". These are external links and will open in a new windowModern humans may have emerged from Africa up to 50,000 years earlier than previously thought, a study suggests.Researchers have uncovered stone tools in the Arabian peninsula that they say were made by modern humans about 125,000 years ago.The tools were unearthed at the site of Jebel Faya in the United Arab Emirates, a team reports in the journal Science.The results are controversial: genetic data strongly points to an exodus from Africa 60,000-70,000 years ago.Simon Armitage, from Royal Holloway, University of London, Hans-Peter Uerpmann, from the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and colleagues, uncovered 125,000-year-old stone tools at Jebel Faya which resemble those found in East Africa at roughly the same time period.
You can imagine how variable the genetic dating is," he explained.Commenting on the findings, Professor Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at London's Natural History Museum, said: "This archaeological work by Armitage and colleagues provides important clues that early modern humans might have dispersed from Africa across Arabia, as far as the Straits of Hormuz, by 120,000 years ago.
The earliest evidence of human life in the UAE was discovered on Sharjah’s Jebel Faya, which dates back to around 8,500 BCE. 50 km east of the city center of Sharjah. They later spread out, migrating to other continents where they displaced the indigenous human groups such as the Neanderthals in Europe and the Denisovans in Asia.DNA from the cell's powerhouses - or mitochondria - can be used as a "clock" for reconstructing the timing of human migrations. The tools from Jebel Faya (pictured) were made by modern humans, the researchers argue It should be noted that the architecture of Hafit tombs is a local feature, while most of the objects discovered within the tombs are of Mesopotamian origin indicating the presence of long distance trade.
This is because mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) accumulates mutations, or changes, at a known rate.Studies of mtDNA had suggested a timing for the "Out of Africa" exodus of 60-70,000 years ago. It is the largest of a group of mountains, extending in a nort-south direction along a distance of about 20 km in the central sector of the Emirate of Sharjah, including Jebel Mleiha, Jebel Faya, Jebel Emalah, Jebel Aqbah, and Jebel Al-Buhais.
This offered a brief window of time for humans to easily cross the sea and cross the Peninsula to opposing sites like Jebel Faya. Dubai: Ancient tools unearthed by archeologists at Jebel Faya in Sharjah indicate that humans migrated far out of Africa 125,000 years ago, about 60,000 years earlier than was previously thought. Forschungsprojekt erstellt geoarchäologisches Archiv der ersten Mensch-Umwelt Interaktionen in Tübinger Region: Landschaft wandelte sich vom Feuchtg... Senckenberg-Wissenschaftler Gerald Mayr hat mit Kollegen aus Belgien und den USA eine neue fossile Eulenart beschrieben. He posed the question: "Could there have been separate dispersals, one from East Africa into Arabia, and another from North Africa into the Levant?