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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Not out-of-Africa?

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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Discovery of 400,000 year old human remains may force a reasessment of evolution.  The theory holds that homo sapiens wandered out of Africa 200,000 years ago.  Other remains have been found in Asia and Spain adding uncertainty and now pre-historic remains have been found in Israel near the Ben Gurion airport. 

Eight teeth of the Mid Pleistocene Age found in the Qesem cave near Rosh Ha'Ayin are the oldest remains found anywhere and supersede 160,000 year old remains found in Middle Awash Aramis, Ethiopia. 

The cave also revealed a sophisticated early human society with stones sharpened, tools and evidence of hunting and use of fire.  More discoveries are anticipated.

Of course these regions are not at great distances one from the other - and certainly more evidence of antiquity will be unveiled adding more pieces to our human puzzle.

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