Saturday, 25 May 2013

Fertile past unearthed from sands of Arabia


The Arabian Peninsula try to found the way of the human traveling from Africa and images from Nasa used to get the information about it. The satellite images of the Arabian Desert give more information about the history and showing what was in this area. The University of Oxford started the big project about Arabian Desert and the leader of the project is   Professor Michael Petraglia and the project will spend 10.9 m in the next 5 years. The researchers found many sites which is the oldest settlement in world for example Nafud desert in northern Saudi Arabia. The archaeologists proved that the African Population moved from the Africa to The Arabian Peninsula by the sites. Dr Nick Drake at King’s College in London started the first stage which is determination historic and prehistoric water sources and second stage is looking to the edges of the lakes. The sites found give information how the people life. Long time weather change effected to the life of the people.

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             King's College London -  Media coverage: January - June 2012. (n.d.).      King's College London -  Home. Retrieved March 3, 2013, from http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/news/Mediacoverage/2012-January-June.aspx

 

 

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