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Early Arabian Pastoral

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The Early Holocene represents a significant improvement from today’s climate, due in part to the northward displacement of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) caused by the Southwest Monsoon. Summer rainfall exceeded 250 mm on average over much of the peninsula, and created permanent lakes in the Rub al Khali, Nafud, and the desert regions of southwest Iraq, eastern Jordan, and southern Syria. Average centigrade temperatures were a number of degrees higher. By 5750 b.p. a decline in precipitation had begun, which resulted in modern conditions by 5000-4000 b.p. (see below).

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