Southern Dispersal along the Arabian and South Asian coasts (c. 70–50 ka)

1. Coastal food use expands in southern Africa

   -0164000-01-01Labels: Pinnacle Point, Homo sapiens

   • SciAm
   • ScienceNews

2. Jebel Faya tools suggest early Arabia occupation

   -0125000-01-01Labels: Jebel Faya, UAE

   • JebelFaya

3. Early modern humans documented in the Levant

   -0120000-01-01Labels: Skhul, Qafzeh

   • PubMed
   • QuaternaryInt

4. Arabian Nubian Complex dated in southern Oman

   -0106000-01-01Labels: Nubian Complex, Oman

   • Antiquity
   • OmanHistory

5. Toba super-eruption deposits ash across South Asia

   -0074000-01-01Labels: Toba eruption, Sumatra

   • QuaternaryInt

6. Jwalapuram shows occupation near the Toba ash

   -0074000-01-01Labels: Jwalapuram, India

   • QuaternaryInt

7. Modern humans documented in Sumatra by 73–63 ka

   -0073000-01-01Labels: Lida Ajer, Sumatra

   • Nature

8. Evidence of Homo in the Philippines by 67 ka

   -0067000-01-01Labels: Callao Cave, Philippines

   • Nature
   • Callao

9. L3 and the rise of non-African mtDNA lineages

   -0065000-01-01Labels: mtDNA L3, Haplogroups M

   • SciRep
   • PubMed

10. Humans reach Sahul, implying sea-capable dispersal

    -0065000-01-01Labels: Madjedbebe, Sahul

    • Nature

11. Bab-el-Mandeb frames a plausible Africa–Arabia crossing

    -0060000-01-01Labels: Bab-el-Mandeb, Perim Island

    • Britannica
    • BabMandeb

12. Southern coastal dispersal becomes a testable framework

    -0050000-01-01Labels: Southern Dispersal, L3 expansion

    • SciRep
    • Nature
    • Nature