[Aracelis]

Isn't that science more compelling than arguable dating of disturbed strata?

For the present, you are quite correct. However, if age-dating these finds reveals that the specimens were emplaced contemporaneously with surrounding sediments, then we will have to re-think our current theories.

[CobaltBlue]

>>However, if age-dating these finds reveals that the specimens were emplaced contemporaneously with surrounding sediments, then we will have to re-think our current theories.<<

It seems to me that all that would need to be re-thought is the assumptions about the timing of genetic variations in mitochondrial DNA.

Older human skeletons push the timeline further backwards but don't, in and of themselves, change the well-established pattern of genetic variation of mitochondrial DNA, which clearly supports a single origin traceable back to Africa.