Abdullah Alsharekh

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine some long-standing assumptions about the early use of coastlines and marine resources and their contribution to the pattern of early human dispersal, focusing on the southern Red Sea Basin and the proposed southern corridor of movement between Africa and Arabia across the Bab al-Mandab Straits.

TL;DR: This article reported a series of dated palaeolake sequences, associated with stone tool assemblages and vertebrate fossils, from the Khall Amayshan 4 and Jubbah basins in the Nefud Desert.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe raw material procurement and early stage lithic reduction at Middle Palaeolithic (MP) archaeological sites in the Jubbah palaeolake basin, in the Nefud Desert, northern Saudi Arabia.

TL;DR: Stable carbon and oxygen isotope analysis of mammal teeth associated with stone tools and cut-marked bone dated to between 300,000 and 500,000 years ago reveals that, at the time of the earliest-known hominin presence, the Arabian peninsula was home to productive grasslands similar to modern-day African savannahs.

TL;DR: Findings reveal a climatically-mediated later Acheulean expansion into a poorly known region, amplifying the documented diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominin behaviour across the Old World and elaborating the terminal archaic landscape encountered by the authors' species as they dispersed out of Africa.