700,000 yr. old Settlement in Qatar.

[Digit]

It's a military term for preparing an attack Min. Typical!

[Cognito]

Since it looks to have been the stepping stone, the jump-off point, to Asia and beyond.

Since it was the gateway to the rest of the world they were probably selling the ancient equivalent of tickets for admission.

[Rokcet Scientist]

"Jumping off point" implies some organization, doesn't it? Like St. Louis was for the wagon trains heading to the American West?

I don't know if I'm ready to embrace that, yet.

Java Man's ancestors (Pithecanthropus erectus) had already passed Qatar hundreds of thousands of years earlier, en route to Java. That + dwellings = organisation to me.

[Rokcet Scientist]

Since it looks to have been the stepping stone, the jump-off point, to Asia and beyond.

Since it was the gateway to the rest of the world they were probably selling the ancient equivalent of tickets for admission.

So what else is new? Qatar was a turnpike. Let's excavate the toll booth!