SOURCE: NYT
1-25-18
tags: Israel, archaeology, homo sapiens, migration
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1-25-18
In an Israeli Cave, Scientists Discover Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa
Breaking Newstags: Israel, archaeology, homo sapiens, migration
Scientists on Thursday announced the discovery of a fossilized human jawbone in a collapsed cave in Israel that they said is between 177,000 and 194,000 years old.
If confirmed, the find may rewrite the early migration story of our species, pushing back by about 50,000 years the time that Homo sapiens first ventured out of Africa.
Previous discoveries in Israel had convinced some anthropologists that modern humans began leaving Africa between 90,000 and 120,000 years ago. But the recently dated jawbone is unraveling that narrative.
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