"Humans were in Southern Arabia 10,000 years earlier ..." Topic

…than first thought.

"The last Ice Age made much of the globe uninhabitable, but there were oases -- or refugia -- where people 20,000 years ago were able to cluster and survive. Researchers at the University of Huddersfield, who specialise in the analysis of human DNA, have found new evidence that there was one or more of these shelters in what is now Southern Arabia.

Once the Ice Age receded -- with the onset of the Late Glacial period about 15,000 years ago -- the people of this refugium then dispersed and populated Arabia and the Horn of Africa, and might also have migrated further afield.

The view used to be that people did not settle in large numbers in Arabia until the development of agriculture, around 10-11,000 years ago. Now, the findings by members of the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group demonstrate that modern humans have dwelt in this territory for far longer than previously thought. The new genetic data and analysis bolsters a theory that has long been held by archaeologists, although they had little evidence to support it until now…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Soooo….the Garden of Eden was in Yemen? Whoda thunk it?

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Amicalement
Armand

It has been claimed before:

According to Yemeni folklore, the southern port city of Aden is the site of the Garden of Eden, the burial place of Cain and Abel or the launch-port for Noah's legendary ark.

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The Arabs have always thought that the "Garden of Eden" was in Yemen (there is a city in Yemen spelled with the exact same phonemes of ‘Ayin, Dal, Nun, that both the Qur'an and the Bible use for spelling the "Garden of Eden"). Thus they believe that mankind's descent was a topographical descent as well as a spiritual one. According to local Saudi Arabian lore, the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is reputed to be the burial place of "Eve," the grandmother of us all and so they named their greatest city of western Arabia after her ("Jeddah" means "grandmother" in Arabic).