Article here: http://ift.tt/1Ptt65e
Paper (paywalled): http://ift.tt/1ODk98z
From the BBC article;
"Fossil finds from China have shaken up the traditional narrative of humankind's dispersal from Africa.
Scientists working in Daoxian, south China, have discovered teeth belonging to modern humans that date to at least 80,000 years ago.
This is 20,000 years earlier than the widely accepted "Out of Africa" migration that led to the successful peopling of the globe by our species."
"All the fossils have been sealed in a calcitic floor, which is like a gravestone, sealing them off. So the teeth have to be older than that layer. Above that are stalagmites that have been dated using uranium series to 80,000 years."
It was previously thought that early migrations into the Levant were failed dispersals. Looks like we might need to rethink things a little bit.
Paper (paywalled): http://ift.tt/1ODk98z
From the BBC article;
"Fossil finds from China have shaken up the traditional narrative of humankind's dispersal from Africa.
Scientists working in Daoxian, south China, have discovered teeth belonging to modern humans that date to at least 80,000 years ago.
This is 20,000 years earlier than the widely accepted "Out of Africa" migration that led to the successful peopling of the globe by our species."
"All the fossils have been sealed in a calcitic floor, which is like a gravestone, sealing them off. So the teeth have to be older than that layer. Above that are stalagmites that have been dated using uranium series to 80,000 years."
It was previously thought that early migrations into the Levant were failed dispersals. Looks like we might need to rethink things a little bit.
via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1jpuREB
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