#1208 Eleanor Scerri: Homo sapiens in Saudi Arabia, Africa, and Malta
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a returning guest, Dr. Eleanor Sherry. She is professor at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, and today we're going to talk about Homo sapiens in Saudi Arabia, their spread through wet tropical forests in Africa, and also their presence on Malta. So Dr.
Sherry, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to everyone. Thank you for having me. I'm very happy to be back. Okay, so toward the end of our last conversation, we touched a little bit on the topic of Homo sapiens in Saudi Arabia, but today I would like to get deeper into it.
So uh do we know when they first got there? We assume that Homo sapiens was probably able to get into Western Asia several times before the main dispersonal event from which all non-Africans are descended. So it's likely that every time the deserts shrank, so by the deserts I mean the Saharo-Arabian Arid Belt. which stretches across North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Every time there was an interglacial period, the period between ice ages and we see increased rainfall, it's likely that to varying degrees this desert belt shrank, allowing humans to be able to
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