The out-of-Africa humans went to the ME, China, etc-much closer-didn’t get to Europe for awhile.
There is not much evidence of a huge difference in the color of early humans from anywhere, other than it was related to the climate conditions where they came from/moved to-more sun-more pigmentation, less sun, pale skin. And people didn’t seem to move very far in glacial periods-if that is racist, then there are a lot of REAL science deniers out there...
Skin color is determined by genetics some think driven by diet. Maybe every modern human was dark skinned until the agricultural transition. Mesolithic European DNA has been sequenced from several finds and it is related to Paleolithic European DNA. Nobody looks like those people anymore. They were dark skinned and blue eyes. The dark skin in Europeans held on for a long time. Otzi (ice mummy) was recently resequenced and found to have darker skin than present Europeans.