Posted on 04/23/2018 1:03:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Researchers have directly dated the earliest-ever fossil from an anatomically modern human found outside of Africa and the Levant. This 90,000-year-old fossilized finger rewrites traditional theories of early migration, beating expectations by some 25,000 years. Homo sapiens, the team thinks, were exploring what was once the wet grassland of Saudi Arabia far earlier than previously thought. Humans may not have left Africa in one big wave, but in a series of trickles... Extensive testing at institutions around the world revealed not only was this the finger bone of a modern human, but it was also the oldest directly dated Homo sapiens fossil ever found outside of Africa and the Levant. Researchers dated the fossil between 85,000 and 90,000 years old, which is up to 25,000 years earlier than expected for this region. The Levant historically refers to countries along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean sea, including modern-day Israel, where a number of important ancient discoveries have been made. Earlier this year, for example, scientists estimated that a Homo sapiens jaw from the country was up to 200,000 years old -- the oldest ever discovered outside of Africa.
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I am open to the ‘notion’ Noah’s flood was a regional deluge... Why? Because of the time it takes an olive tree to bring forth a green leaf. Noah and his family were only on the ark 150 days... The finding of the olive leaf was not describe as being a miracle planting. The flood was to cleanse the earth, of any who might attempt again to mess up the bloodline to Christ. Noah and his family were the only family of the Adam that had not been polluted by the ‘giants’...
Enormous monolith, carved 9350 years ago, found under Mediterranean Sea
News Limited (Australia) | August 9, 2015
Posted on 08/08/2015 11:37:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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