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World’s Oldest Human Remains found outside of Africa challenges conventional wisdom that Homo sapiens originated in Africa.
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THERE WERE WORLDS BEFORE "THIS ONE' WE KNOW
World’s Oldest Human Remains were discovered in Israel
This challenges conventional wisdom that Homo sapiens originated in Africa.
Eight teeth uncovered in an Israeli cave are the earliest traces of our species known.
Israeli archaeologists have discovered human remains dating from 400,000 years ago, challenging conventional wisdom that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, the leader of excavations in Israel said on Tuesday.
Avi Gopher, of Tel Aviv University’s Institute of Archaeology, said testing of stalagmites, stalactites and other material found in a cave east of Tel Aviv indicates that eight teeth uncovered there could be the earliest traces so far of our species.
“Our cave was used for a period of about 250,000 years — from about 400,000 years ago to about 200,000 years ago,” he told AFP.
“The teeth are scattered through the layers of the cave, some in the deeper part, that is to say from 400,000 years and through all kinds of other layers that can be up to 200,000 years. The oldest are 400,000 years old,” he added.”
That calls into question the widely held view that Africa was the birthplace of modern man, said Gopher, who headed the dig at Qesem Cave.
“It is accepted at the moment that the earliest Homo sapiens that we know is in east Africa and is 200,000 years old — or a little less. We don’t know of anywhere else where anyone claims to have an earlier Homo sapiens,” he said.
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