The earlier Neanderthal colonization of Europe was about 400,000 years back.
What I think has been discovered is the movement of a more highly cultured human group from Arabia back down into Africa during a short, previously unknown Saharian pluvial.
There's also the recent discovery that virtually all indigenous Africans have a quite serious gene group that comes from yet a different race which did not pass on any of those genes to Europeans, East Indians, or Andaman Islanders.
Some of the anthropoligists have suggested this other race was another version of the Neanderthalers ~ albeit a group living in Africa and pursuing a separate evolution.
It is possible the people returning to Africa bred (as is normal) with this other population to create today's current indigenous populations. The Sen people seem to be a separate race from all the others in Africa, but they are demonstrably related at the genetic level with the Europeans and East Asians.
All these things are possible. We do not know when physically modern men first appeared on the scene, nor what the true course of history is. One constant I have ƒound is that most people do not know how big Africa is. We were on a tour in Spain. The South Africians who were with us were flying out of Madrid the same time we were, and getting home after we arrived back to DFW. Direct flights in each case.
All these things are possible. We do not know when physically modern men first appeared on the scene, nor what the true course of history is. One constant I have ƒound is that most people do not know how big Africa is. We were on a tour in Spain. The South Africians who were with us were flying out of Madrid the same time we were, and getting home after we arrived back to DFW. Direct flights in each case.
The evidence of cultural levels in man from 200k to 40k is very limited. South Africa has definite evidence of relatively modern culture from 85k. However, a polished child’s skull raising question of “religion” is 160k and the tool kits show a consistent level of esthetic design from 200k+.
The record is very sparse because there just were not all that many of us around. At some point around 80k there were only 10k modern humans around or so DNA seems to indicate.
My point is that evidence is so rare as to make almost any speculation “iffy”.