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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel#Domestication
Dromedaries may have first been domesticated by humans in Somalia and southern Arabia, around 3,000 BC, the Bactrian in central Asia around 2,500 BC.[14][62][63][64]

http://archaeology.about.com/od/cterms/g/camels.htm
Dromedaries were probably domesticated in coastal settlements along the southern Arabian peninsula somewhere between 3000 and 2500 BC. The earliest reference to camels in Arabia is the Sihi mandible, a camelid bone direct dated to ca 7100-7200 cal BC, or about 8200 RCYBP. Sihi is a Neolithic coastal site in Yemen, and the bone is probably a wild dromedary. The earliest camels in Africa are from Qasr Ibrim, Nubia, 9th century BC.

Evidence for the domestication of Bactrian camels has been found as early as 2600 BC at Shar-i Sokhta (also known as the Burnt City), Iran.

All right, John. I will tentatively concede the presence of camels as an outside possibility pending any other research coming to my notice.

However, I will note that your sources say that camels were first domesticated for meat rather than transport and that they did not come into common use until 1000 BC. Moreover, it is said that the Egyptians did not even hear of camels until 525 BC, which would seem a bit odd if Abraham had vast herds of camels and his grandson Jacob moved to Egypt. There is another even bigger historical faux pas in Genesis 12 where Abraham lets the Egyptian Pharaoh take his wife Sarai, and in return he grows wealthy with the livestock (including camels) given to him by Pharaoh.

14 When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman. 15 And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace. 16 He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.