The long sequence of occupations of the Faya Paleolandscape indicates that the Arabian Peninsula was not just a corridor, but an independent region of human cultural evolution.

Faya is famous for one of the world’s oldest and most continuous records of early human presence in arid environments over 200,000 years. It yielded evidence for the long-supposed southern route of modern human expansion “out of Africa” via the Bab-al-Mandap strait.