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Monday, December 20, 2010

A lost civilization under the Persian Gulf?

Dec. 15, 2010
Courtesy of University of Chicago Press Journals
and World Science staff
Once fer­tile ground now sub­merged un­der the Per­sian Gulf may have been home to some of the ear­li­est hu­man popula­t­ions out­side Af­ri­ca, ac­cord­ing to a new re­port.

Jef­frey Rose, an ar­chae­o­lo­gist and re­search­er with the Uni­vers­ity of Bir­ming­ham in the U.K., said the ar­ea in and around this “Per­sian Gulf Oa­sis” may have been host to hu­mans for over 100,000 years be­fore it was swal­lowed up by the In­di­an Ocean around 8,000 years ago.

Rose’s hy­poth­e­sis in­tro­duces a “new and sub­stan­tial cast of char­ac­ters” to the hu­man his­to­ry of the Near East, he said, and sug­gests that hu­mans may have es­tab­lished per­ma­nent set­tle­ments in the re­gion thou­sands of years be­fore cur­rent migra­t­ion mod­els sup­pose.

His report is pub­lished in the De­cem­ber is­sue of the re­search jour­nal Cur­rent An­thro­po­l­ogy./.../

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