Posted on Jul 11, 2018

Earliest evidence of humans outside Africa

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A complex tale Sgt Wayne Wood Capt Daniel Goodman

Earliest evidence of humans outside Africa

Posted from bbc.com

Posted in these groups: China

Posted 6 y ago

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Sgt Wayne Wood

Posted 6 y ago

Would really like to see higher resolution pics of that... hand-axe(?)... scraper(?)...

Need better pix from different angles...

Guess i’ll keep looking!

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Sgt Wayne Wood

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Geez! Why do newspapers have to be so stupid?

Every single one i checked showed a pic of the middle of a rock... nothing on the flake edges... nothing showing the scale (rulers are boring, i guess)

Thank God for NatGeo and preserve me from journalists...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-china-human-tools-africa-shangchen-hominin-paleoanthropology/

Oldest Tools Outside Africa Found, Rewriting Human Story

New evidence suggests that our ancient cousins left the continent much earlier than thought.

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Sgt Wayne Wood

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https://apnews.com/960ae67d518d46c5855033ea1ffb1d49

Chinese find suggests human relatives left Africa earlier

NEW YORK (AP) — Stone tools recovered from an excavation in China suggest that our evolutionary forerunners trekked out of Africa earlier than we thought. Until now,

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