At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/footprints-emerge-sands-shouldnt-exist/ … in the western Nefud Desert of Arabia an interesting discovery of human footprints. They appear to date back to the end of the last interglacial episode, at 115,000 years ago. In what is thought to have been a completely different climate to that of today. Now arid, back then it was much wetter, with streams and lakes. The footprints appeared to have been imposed on mud. Along with those of elephants, camels, antelope, and wild horses. We are told that footprints are usually short lived. A matter of a few days, or even hours. They may have been preserved in less time than that – buried failry quickly.
It is assumed by the authors of the research paper that the location was a lakeside, or a water hole in which animals, and humans, came to slake their thirst. All we know from the mud it was a watery location – either before or after the preservation of the footprints. The link then goes on to say the footprints were not those of Neanderthals and therefore must be those of modern humans, moving across Arabia from Africa into Asia. They say they can tell they are not those of Neanderthals by the size and shape of the footprints. Clever chaps. Further, they add there is no evidence of Neanderthals in the Levant at that time [during the interglacial episode]. Well, one can say they have not come across any skulls to prove otherwise. A nice story surrounding the tracks, it would seem, has been created. One that supports the idea that modern humans moved out of Africa earlier than 50,000 years ago – in order to get Aborigines in Australia before the Laschamp event. It is worth pointing out there is no sign of footprints in every direction – as one would expect at a water hole or lake side location. They are all moving in one direction. Why?