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And it's Not going to be going towards 6000 yrs old YEC fans.
Hominins keep getting older and more geographically diverse earlier
The map is amazing to me. Of course, IFLscience.
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New Discovery Could Force Us To Rewrite The Timeline Of Humanity
Aliyah Covner- July 11, 2018
New Discovery Could Force Us To Rewrite The Timeline Of Humanity
A new discovery in the ongoing quest to determine when our human ancestors migrated out of Africa has shifted the timeline back – once again.
Writing in Nature, a team of geologists, archaeologists, and paleoanthropologists describe a rich cache of stone tools unearthed from a steep hillside in the Loess Plateau of north-central China. The 96 shaped flakes and unmodified hammerstones were found in 17 distinct sediment layers that date from 2.12 to 1.26 million years ago (Ma), providing evidence that a species of hominin – the lineage of bipedal humans that includes our genus, Homo, and its extinct ancient relatives – had settled in the region about 400,000 years earlier than previously collected fossils and tools indicate.
“Until now, the oldest known hominin site outside Africa was in Dmanisi, Georgia. Excavations at that site uncovered spectacular finds of the roughly 1.85 million- to 1.78-million-year-old remains of multiple hominins and stone tools,” wrote John Kappelman, a biological anthropologist and geologist at the University of Texas, in an accompanying article. A variety of other sites across western Europe to eastern Asia have confirmed that diverse populations of humans were established shortly after the Dmanisi settlement.
In an email to IFLScience, Professor Kappelman explained the significance of the findings made by lead author Zhaoyu Zhu and his colleagues: “[T]here was previous evidence for early hominins outside of Africa and across Asia at less than 2 million years ago. This new work moves the date back in time but more importantly shows that the dispersal was widespread across Asia.”
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Hominins keep getting older and more geographically diverse earlier
The map is amazing to me. Of course, IFLscience.
(other illustrations/pix as well)
New Discovery Could Force Us To Rewrite The Timeline Of Humanity
Aliyah Covner- July 11, 2018
New Discovery Could Force Us To Rewrite The Timeline Of Humanity
A new discovery in the ongoing quest to determine when our human ancestors migrated out of Africa has shifted the timeline back – once again.
Writing in Nature, a team of geologists, archaeologists, and paleoanthropologists describe a rich cache of stone tools unearthed from a steep hillside in the Loess Plateau of north-central China. The 96 shaped flakes and unmodified hammerstones were found in 17 distinct sediment layers that date from 2.12 to 1.26 million years ago (Ma), providing evidence that a species of hominin – the lineage of bipedal humans that includes our genus, Homo, and its extinct ancient relatives – had settled in the region about 400,000 years earlier than previously collected fossils and tools indicate.
“Until now, the oldest known hominin site outside Africa was in Dmanisi, Georgia. Excavations at that site uncovered spectacular finds of the roughly 1.85 million- to 1.78-million-year-old remains of multiple hominins and stone tools,” wrote John Kappelman, a biological anthropologist and geologist at the University of Texas, in an accompanying article. A variety of other sites across western Europe to eastern Asia have confirmed that diverse populations of humans were established shortly after the Dmanisi settlement.
In an email to IFLScience, Professor Kappelman explained the significance of the findings made by lead author Zhaoyu Zhu and his colleagues: “[T]here was previous evidence for early hominins outside of Africa and across Asia at less than 2 million years ago. This new work moves the date back in time but more importantly shows that the dispersal was widespread across Asia.”
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