115000 Year Old Human Footprints Found in Saudi Desert Upend Migration Assumptions

Tracks appear in the interior, not the usual routes

Fossilized Homo sapiens footprints about 115,000 years old have been found in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert, preserved on an ancient lakebed alongside animal tracks. The discovery suggests early humans moved farther into the Arabian interior during a wetter, cooler interglacial period, challenging older ideas about where and when they expanded across the region.