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Recorded human history is just a tiny blip on the temporal radar. The Pyramids of Giza were built around 2500 BCE, but 4,500 years ago seems like yesterday when you compare it to the 300,000 years our species, Homo sapiens, has been around. Since our earliest ancestors didn’t leave as much behind, we know very little about how they lived.
Scientists first theorized in the 19th century that humans originated in Africa, and modern genetic science has largely confirmed that to be the case, though researchers are still working to determine the exact geography. Scientists also disagree on when and how humans dispersed. One early theory suggested that our Homo sapiens ancestors started to leave Africa around 60,000 years ago. Most non-African humans today can trace their origins back to a large exodus around that time, but smaller migrations may have started much earlier. Fossil evidence shows that groups of foragers arrived in Asia around 120,000 years ago, and brought skills such as deep-sea fishing and cave art with them. Other fossil discoveries, including a 210,000-year-old skull found in Greece, suggest some humans left Africa even earlier.
Scientists first theorized in the 19th century that humans originated in Africa, and modern genetic science has largely confirmed that to be the case, though researchers are still working to determine the exact geography. Scientists also disagree on when and how humans dispersed. One early theory suggested that our Homo sapiens ancestors started to leave Africa around 60,000 years ago. Most non-African humans today can trace their origins back to a large exodus around that time, but smaller migrations may have started much earlier. Fossil evidence shows that groups of foragers arrived in Asia around 120,000 years ago, and brought skills such as deep-sea fishing and cave art with them. Other fossil discoveries, including a 210,000-year-old skull found in Greece, suggest some humans left Africa even earlier.
7 Facts About the Earliest Humans on Earth
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Someone is in for a rude awakening come the day we meet our Lord and our past can be revealed to us.
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I like stuff like this. Sometimes I wonder about how some scientists think. A scientist was concerned about how other scientists didn’t like the fact that pre historic kids “ruined” prehistoric trash piles. The concerned scientist reminded his colleagues that children are a part of human history. The concerned scientist made junk piles to see what kids would do and he studied kids. Another scientist decided that early men would hunt and feast leaving women at home with kids to starve because animal processing sites were located some distance from the actual settlement site. I guess it never cured to the scientist that blood, guts etc discarded in the processing of dead animals would draw scavengers and predators. Processing animal was probably better done a distance away from the village. We really can not fully understand their reasoning. All we can do is speculate.
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MAJ Hugh Blanchard
Since the hunt might take days to conclude, and preserving meat was not a widely-known skill, it would make sense for the hunting party to feast on the kill and then bring "left overs" back home. Dragging a huge corpse would be impractical and would attract dangerous predators. So, it's understandable that leaving the remains of the hunt away from the village might be best practice.
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