Tristan Hughes

Although it wasn't enduring there because ultimately they have to leave Arabia when the climate gets much worse, as you mentioned some 23,000 years ago.

Because of that, I mean, do we therefore have any sense, any idea of how those early communities lived in Arabia and how they got to Arabia?

Just anything about their lives.

And as I said- Sorry, that is where?

Where is that?

This is Yemen.

And do we see, and so the people are coming at that time, they're coming from many different places, including the Levant, do we think?

Thank you for letting me ask so many questions about the pre-7000 years ago.

I do appreciate it, but I love exploring that kind of deep ice age story of it all.

But does it therefore seem that by 8000, 7000 years ago, there is quite a population boom in Arabia at that time?

Yes, what do we know about the environment at that time?

So I was actually going to ask my next question was, when do we think that the people who then populate Arabia, of course, massive landmass, I mean, when do they become more sedentary?

I mean, do they bring farming with them?

But it doesn't seem like it's a straightforward answer to that.

know few millennia and and and some of them still do today you know these caravans that we talk about that we we all learned about they were only recent um you also mentioned in passing earlier and i know it and its involvement in the story the story of the natufians yes now can you explain who they are and how they relate to the story of arabia by this time a few thousand years ago

Following 7,000 years ago, do you as a geneticist and your team, do you have more information available for learning more, as you mentioned there with the Natufian link, for instance, about the makeup of these early populations in Arabia?

I guess it's still the Stone Age at that time, or deep in prehistory, but less than 7,000 years ago?

But after that time, do we have more examples from the prehistoric Arabian population?

So 6,000, 5,000, 4,000 years ago, so we can learn much more about this?

So Pierre, of course, we're covering a huge geographic region with Arabia, you know, several modern countries today.