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
Posted on 03/24/2019 10:18:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The migration signal makes good sense in terms of climate. For most of the last few hundred years, different parts of Africa have been out of step with each other in terms of the aridity of the climate. Only for a brief period at 60,000-70,000 years ago was there a window during which the continent as a whole experienced sufficient moisture to open up a corridor between the south and the east. And intriguingly, it was around 65,000 years ago that some of the signs of symbolism and technological complexity seen earlier in South Africa start to appear in the east.
The identification of this signal opens up the possibility that a migration of a small group of people from South Africa towards the east around 65,000 years ago transmitted aspects of their sophisticated modern human culture to people in East Africa. Those East African people were biologically little different from the South Africans - they were all modern Homo sapiens, their brains were just as advanced and they were undoubtedly cognitively ready to receive the benefits of the new ideas and upgrade. But the way it happened might not have been so very different from a modern isolated stone-age culture encountering and embracing western civilization today.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
These discoveries are amazing. What a time to be alive.
The timeline roughly correlates with Toba catastrophe theory.
Hmmm... I thought the genome project invalidated the commonly held theory on migration direction.
I smell grant money or doctoral thesis evidence planting.
“Researchers shed new light on the origins of modern humans”
Have they figured out where democrats came from?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3067171/posts?page=19#19
https://www.google.com/search?q=Modern+Humans+in+India+Earlier+site:freerepublic.com
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Do these 9.7 million-year-old teeth suggest EUROPE is the cradle of humanity? [tr]
MailOnline | October 20, 2017 | Shlvali Best
Posted on 10/20/2017 2:55:09 PM PDT by sparklite2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3597022/posts
On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners [130K]
The New York Times | 15 Feb 2010 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Posted on 02/17/2010 7:15:26 AM PST by Palter
Edited on 02/17/2010 7:17:06 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2453256/posts
Discovery Of 47 Teeth In Chinese Cave Changes Picture Of Human Migration Out Of Africa
Los Angeles Times | 15 October 2015 | Amina Khan
Posted on 10/17/2015 9:09:33 PM PDT by zeestephen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3349945/posts
Chinese challenge to ‘out of Africa’ theory
New Scientist | 11/03/09 | Phil McKenna
Posted on 11/10/2009 8:39:50 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2383599/posts
Prehistoric Settlement Found In Qatar (700,000 YO)
The Peninsular | 6-23-2008
Posted on 06/23/2008 1:38:41 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2035242/posts
Thanks!
The Scars of Evolution:"The most remarkable aspect of Todaro's discovery emerged when he examined Homo Sapiens for the 'baboon marker'. It was not there... Todaro drew one firm conclusion. 'The ancestors of man did not develop in a geographical area where they would have been in contact with the baboon. I would argue that the data we are presenting imply a non-African origin of man millions of years ago.'"
What Our Bodies Tell Us
About Human Origins
by Elaine Morgan
fish hooks?
Fish were the world's first fast food. :^)
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