Prehistoric Arabia

This article is about the era of Arabia before its documented civilizations. For the documented pre-Islamic history of Arabia, see Pre-Islamic Arabia.
For the pre-history of the Arabian Peninsula in a plate-tectonic sense, see Arabian plate.

Prehistoric Arabia, or the prehistory of Arabia, refers to the era of the Arabian Peninsula that predates the start of recorded history in the region that came about at the dawn of Arabia's earliest kingdoms. Some define "Prehistoric Arabia" as the period between 10,000 and 1,000 BC, whereas others put its starting point all the way back to the time of the earliest hominin species two million years ago.

The study of prehistoric Arabia is largely comes from the field of Arabian archaeology. Compared to research on the prehistory of other major world regions, research into Arabian prehistory has progressed slowly, because of the harsh desert environment of the Peninsula, historical restrictions in entry, and limited infrastructure for navigating the region, especially the desert interior. It has been said that the Arabian Peninsula "remains one of the last great unexplored regions of the ancient world".

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