10,000 BCE is just the approximate beginning of agriculture too, anatomically modern humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. Even the predecessors to those anatomically modern humans were pretty damn human-looking

12,000 years ago is about when we as humans decided to stop picking up our entire lives and moving on every winter.

Or, possibly more accurately, when the semi permanent settlements we’d been using became permanent either because the crops we’d been working at raising started doing really well, and/or, because moving just wasn’t an option anymore.

About 40,000 years ago we started painting, and doing other creative things.

200,000 years ago the first modern humans evolved in Africa. It took 100,000 years before we were capturing fast moving prey. Another 50 thousand to wipe out all of our bipedal competitors.

Homo Sapiens Sapiens (us) is generally agreed to have arrived on the world scene about 160k to 90k years ago in Africa, and genetic comparison + climate reconstruction shows that we started migrating out of Africa, first into the Middle East, about 50k to 60k years ago.

So… an anatomically modern human footprint in the ME would have to be about 15x older than this one to be any kind of unexpected.

Further, 4k years ago in Mesopotamia is… not unexpected at all, in two ways:

1 The Sumerian civilization can be archeologically traced back almost to 4000 BCE, which is 6k years ago.

2 A 4k old footprint human in mesopotamia … is not even out of expectation for a young earth creationist, as that biblical timeline would include such people as roughly those that are supposed to have built the tower of Babel.

I think some fundamentalist Christians believe the earth is 4000 years old only.

Garbage in garbage out.

Not if you believe the whole of earth history was 6,000 years ago.