[SunkenCiv]

This is a map showing early African archaeological sites with evidence for symbolic material and microlithic stone tools | Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli

[Mr Radical]

Also from the article: "In any case, it looks as if something happened when the groups from the South encountered the East, with the upshot being the greatest diaspora of Homo sapiens ever known - both throughout Africa and out of Africa to settle much of Eurasia and as far as Australia within the space of only a few thousand years."

It must have been something dramatic to trigger a move to the opposite ends of the earth? Something like, they didn't get along?

[SpaceBar]

The timeline roughly correlates with Toba catastrophe theory.

[nicollo]

fish hooks?