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Anthropology has just been radically changed

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Until this month, it was always believed that H. Sapiens Largely remained in Africa and Asia until around 40,000 years ago. And for various reasons, Neanderthal was the only humanoid in Europe.


But now that thought is radically shifting. Over 40 years ago 2 skulls were found in an oceanside cave in Greece. One an almost complete skull that was immediately identified as Neanderthal, and a skull fragment. Both were embedded in the same chunk of sediment, so it was assumed that they were probably from the same time period.


But more recent research into the fragment has shocked anthropologists and may rewrite human migration into Europe.


Known as Apidima 1 and Apidima 2, most attention had been given to Apidima 2 because it is almost complete. But only recently did they try to have the skulls fully recreated with modern imaging techniques. And that is when they got their shock.


Apidima 1, however, has features that distinguish it as a modern human. Its owner lived some 40,000 years before its Neanderthal neighbor, making it the oldest human skull found outside of Africa.
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210,000-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe or Asia - Los Angeles Times


This even predates the oldest known modern human bones in Asia. Pretty much all beliefs of early human migration may have to be thrown out, and entirely new models created.


Apidima 1 Is the Oldest Human Fossil Outside Africa - The Atlantic
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Humans being in Greece 200,000 ya is pretty much the same as before. Emergence from Africa is, what, about 500,000 ya?

I'm not sure how the OP thinks this changes things. Perhaps a bit later emergence from Africa, but not much.
 
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Oozlefinch said:
Until this month, it was always believed that H. Sapiens Largely remained in Africa and Asia until around 40,000 years ago. And for various reasons, Neanderthal was the only humanoid in Europe.


But now that thought is radically shifting. Over 40 years ago 2 skulls were found in an oceanside cave in Greece. One an almost complete skull that was immediately identified as Neanderthal, and a skull fragment. Both were embedded in the same chunk of sediment, so it was assumed that they were probably from the same time period.


But more recent research into the fragment has shocked anthropologists and may rewrite human migration into Europe.


Known as Apidima 1 and Apidima 2, most attention had been given to Apidima 2 because it is almost complete. But only recently did they try to have the skulls fully recreated with modern imaging techniques. And that is when they got their shock.





210,000-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe or Asia - Los Angeles Times


This even predates the oldest known modern human bones in Asia. Pretty much all beliefs of early human migration may have to be thrown out, and entirely new models created.


Apidima 1 Is the Oldest Human Fossil Outside Africa - The Atlantic
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Read this some time ago. You may find it interesting

Ancient DNA is a powerful tool for studying the past – when archaeologists and geneticists work together
 
How did the Neanderthals get here?


Gotta be a bridge somewhere.....
 
Rexedgar said:
How did the Neanderthals get here?


Gotta be a bridge somewhere.....
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Aliens

Or just a different subspecies that eventually died out like the Denisovans. Both groups have left traces of DNA in modern humans. I believe the Neandrerthal DNA traces are found primarily those of european ethnicity and denisovan in those of East/south east ethnicity and Native Americans
 
ecofarm said:
Humans being in Greece 200,000 ya is pretty much the same as before. Emergence from Africa is, what, about 500,000 ya?

I'm not sure how the OP thinks this changes things. Perhaps a bit later emergence from Africa, but not much.
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One of the predominant theories was that pressure from the dominant Neanderthal in the region forced H. Sapiens to move East into Asia, instead of West into Europe.

This is causing some to rethink things now.
 
Oozlefinch said:
One of the predominant theories was that pressure from the dominant Neanderthal in the region forced H. Sapiens to move East into Asia, instead of West into Europe.

This is causing some to rethink things now.
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The approximate date of emergence from Africa doesn't change. If I recall correctly, we're finding that people emerged from Africa a little later than previously estimated and traveled farther and faster than expected.
 
ecofarm said:
The approximate date of emergence from Africa doesn't change. If I recall correctly, we're finding that people emerged from Africa a little later than previously estimated and traveled farther and faster than expected.
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But previous to this, not into Europe. That is what changed.
 
Oozlefinch said:
But previous to this, not into Europe. That is what changed.
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Greece is hardly Europe, could be explorers, we'll see.

I'd like to see a map of the oldest human remains found in each country.
 
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