The Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, which announced the find, said the bone was discovered during excavations at Tayma, where a large oasis exists with a long history of habitation.
It said that the discovery was made by a joint research team of Saudi archaeologists and experts from Oxford University.
The commission noted that the bone is the middle part of the middle finger of a human being believed to have lived 90,000 years ago.
``This renders it as the oldest human trace found to date in the Arabian Peninsula.
The commission disclosed that the team is part of the Green Arabia Project, a Saudi-British survey and excavation undertaking aiming to perform several environmental and archaeological studies of various historical sites in Saudi Arabia. (Xinhua/NAN)
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