First humans out of Africa stopped at Persian Plateau on way to Eurasia

After Homo sapiens expanded out of Africa 70,000 years ago, they seem to have paused for some 20,000 years before colonising Europe and Asia. Now researchers think they know where. Looking at ancient and modern DNA, and the environment of the time, scientists have pinpointed the Persian Plateau — which in this definition encompasses Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and parts of Oman — as the perfect place. Finding local archaeological evidence to confirm this could be difficult.