{
  "id": 16926532,
  "title": "Tethered to stone: how rock and water availability shaped early desert occupation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/tethered-to-stone-how-rock-and-water-availability-shaped-early-desert",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nature",
    "slug": "nature",
    "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03263-0"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nature, Published online: 28 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03263-0 Fresh water in deserts often points to sites with signs of early humans and stone tools. But, in Arabia’s Rub’ al Khali region, water alone does not predict occupation.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}