Prof. Pierre Zalloua

I would say my guess would be around that time, 7,000 years ago, started to see strong evidence of populations that actually remained.

One thing I have to mention as well is after the ice melted around 18,000 years ago, what happened to the Persian Gulf?

What happened to the sea level?

It rose significantly.

So those people,

the ancient people who actually may have lived around there, what happened to them?

They're underwater now.

So that's why it's very hard to find these archaeological remains from 50,000 years ago or 20,000 years ago if they exist because they're underwater.

So hopefully one day we can actually have underwater archaeology and then discover those.

Some have now started to being discovered.

These are based purely on certain archaeological findings.

and no humans, actually, they have not been able to find human remains.

But the archeology actually is telling that these may have been occupied.

And the problem is, again, as I said, we have not been able to find human remains

up until 7,000 or 6,000 prior.

And we are working.

I am with some collaborators that we're working on some of these remains.

So far, we're not very successful, but we are pushing on that.

It's really hard to pinpoint the evidence right now of these ancient, ancient people who actually lived.

I think as we do more archaeological studies, underwater archaeological studies, we will find