Wild sheep grazed in the Black Desert 14,500 years ago
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

Excavations of architecture and associated deposits left by hunter-gatherers in the Black Desert in eastern Jordan have revealed bones from wild sheep - a species previously not identified in this area in the Late Pleistocene. According to the team of University of Copenhagen archaeologists, who led the excavations, the discovery is further evidence that the region often seen as a `marginal zone` was capable of supporting a variety of resources, including a population of wild sheep, 14,500 years ago.