The story of the human body vs sapiens
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A later group left prior to 50 kya and populated Eurasia and the New World, and made their way to the South Pacific as well, where they must have come into contact and interbred with the previously existing humans there. There are sites dating to ~120 kya in the Middle East. The ancestors of some Southeast Asians and the earliest Australians (as well as inhabitants of surrounding islands and those that were used as “stepping stones”) may have left Africa ~125 kya. Groups of AMH made one or more exoduses out of Africa during the Late Pleistocene. Homo idaltu may be descended from the earlier South African form(s) and the most recent ancestor of AMH. Material from the Herto site in Ethiopia (Middle Awash area of the Afar Depression) is dated to 160 kya and sometimes referred to as Homo idaltu or Homo sapiens idaltu. Fossils characteristic of a transitional form, termed Homo helmei, are found at the South African site of Florisbad and dated to 260 kya. We may be descended from an African population of Homo heidelbergensis (sometimes referred to as Homo rhodesiensis) or an earlier common ancestor of heidelbergensis, based on recent genetic evidence. The origin of our species is thought to have occurred in Africa sometime prior to 200 kya, based on fossil and genetic evidence. My discussion of early AMH will cover their existence and culture prior to the Mesolithic period (~12 kya) only and will focus primarily on European sites due to the paucity of information from earlier and non-European sites. Too numerous to mention, as one or more individuals work at each site and sites are numerous, especially in Eurasia INTRODUCTION
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South Africa: Border Cave and Klasies River MouthĪsia (the following are earliest regional sites):įrance: Cro Magnon (the most famous site in France)Īustralia (the following are earliest regional sites):