120,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Have Been Discovered in Saudi Arabia

www.sciencealert.com ^ | 18 SEPTEMBER 2020 | ISSAM AHMED

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!...........................

[zeestephen]

That is really cool.

There are human artifacts that date back 100,000 years in Israel and the Caucasus region in northeast Turkey.

When you look at a map, it is very easy to understand how the Fertile Crescent became the Cradle of Civilization for the descendants of the Out of Africa explorers.

[PIF]

Despite they opening blurb, hominin does not necessarily equate to homo sapiens in this case

[bunkerhill7]

They wuz attending the camel races.

[Red Badger]

Well, they left Africa.
That’s sounds pretty ‘sapien’ to me.....................

[PIF]

There are sites in California and Mexico that date from 160,000 to nearly 300,000 years ago. The whole of physical anthropology is out of wack and in turmoil like most sciences relating to the human past and origins.

[Track9]

I would think anywhere you find oil, fossils and ‘life’ would be plentiful.

[Red Badger]

Like the Arctic?................

[Track9]

Sure. Maybe explained by continental drift.

[Red Badger]

.... or Climate Change..........................

[laplata]

I say those are camel tracks.

[MRadtke]

Or the Antarctic...

https://www.livescience.com/60944-ancient-fossil-forest-discovered-in-antarctica.html

[PIF]

There is another theory that hold more credence then the out of Africa meme and is more credible since it accounts for why we have certain aquatic features which are counter-roductive for plains and aboral evolution.

There is no way that hominids came out of Africa 100k years ago, but were somehow already in South America 200K before that.

[Red Badger]

Yes, I have heard that.

We all have common ancestors that were in different parts of the Pangaea super-continent that eventually broke apart and became the modern continents..............

[Stingray51]

The issue I have with reports like this is that they state a conclusion which is read as fact by students and most readers without detailing (or even providing much of any perspective on) the layers upon layers of assumptions upon which the conclusion relies.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. All them Sapien Homos were well ahead of Al Sharpton.

[SunkenCiv]

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[PIF]

Lemuria/Mu which was much later by millions of years than Pangaea

[KamperKen]

"There is no way that hominids came out of Africa 100k years ago, but were somehow already in South America 200K before that.

The Out of Africa theory was a result of the "black is beautiful" movement back in the 60s. The evidence didn't support it then as it does not now. But like all the great 'woke' myths it persists.