Posted on 10/09/2023 6:17:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...we find the now inhospitable and hyper-arid zone of the southern Jordan Rift Valley was frequently lush and well-watered in the past.
Our evidence suggests this valley had a riverine and wetland zone that would have provided ideal passage... out of Africa and deep into the Levant and Arabia...
Our findings from sedimentary sections ranging 5 to 12 metres in thickness showed ecosystem fluctuations over time, including cycles of dry and humid environments. We also found evidence for the presence of ancient rivers and wetlands.
Luminescence dating showed the sedimentary environments formed between 125,000 and 43,000 years ago, suggesting there had been multiple wet intervals...
Further evidence for a northward expansion comes from the famous Skhul and Qafzeh cave sites in Israel. Fossils of Homo sapiens and Levallois stone tools have been found here.
Towards the south, fieldwork in northern Saudi Arabia has also demonstrated a network of rivers and lakes was once present in the region. This allowed humans to penetrate a green Nefud Desert replete with savannahs and grassland...
Our findings from the Jordan Rift Valley indicate there were multiple early human migrations from Africa, and into Asia, during favourable conditions. This opposes the theory of a single, rapid wave of human movement out of Africa 60,000 years ago.
Our results also suggest, together with the Levantine and Arabian evidence, that hunter-gatherers used inland river and wetland systems as they crossed South-West Asia. This contradicts a popular model suggesting they mainly used coastal routes as super-highways.
Although ancient DNA evidence indicates Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans multiple times as they spread into Asia, on-the-ground evidence for these encounters has generally been lacking. Our findings provide further evidence this area served as the ground for these encounters.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconversation.com ...
Authors: Michael Petraglia, Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University; Mahmoud Abbas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University; Zhongping Lai, Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University. Disclosure statement: Zhongping Lai receives funding from the China Natural Science Foundation.Mahmoud Abbas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University
Wait? There were no roads to control the flow of traffic? :)
Secular humanist Darwinist cultists academia’s motto :
” proffessing ourselves wise we become fools “
The first ‘White Flight’..................
Still aren’t. ;^)
That applies also to other fanatics.
So there goes my chance to say I am an “African-American” and collect reparations.
Sounds like the climate changed or something.
“Sounds like the climate changed or something.”
I know you are being sarcastic, but you are right about the “something”.
The earth’s axis tilted causing the equator to shift locations.
Greta screamed and passed out on the floor.
IOW anthropology, botany, and archaeology need to work together on an experimental basis more than I have seen. The process might develop new means of identifying pre-historic land use patterns.
I agree, it’s a false division, or maybe more accurately an archaic and outdated one. Hunting and gathering is just part of being opportunistic feeders, and “Opportunistic Feeder” would be a great brand name for my next refrigerator. Toolmaking probably went from being for hunting or processing to being for self-defense really rapidly, and agriculture / gardening is probably so old we’ll never find out just how old it is.
The science is settled...
“It started long ago in the Garden of Eden
When Adam said to Eve, baby, you’re for me
So come on baby, let’s start today, come on baby, let’s play
The game of love, love, la la la la la love”
- Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders
You might appreciate the site history chapter of our project as it contains a repeating excercise in making such inferences.
Thanks, but it’s a bum link.
Thanks! I’ve been having a lot of copy/paste problems. Could be the old computers I use, could be some CCP hack, or other gubmint police state surveillance.
Trump about to speak, NH:
https://rsbntv.maz.tv/apps/3578/139782
The Amazon May Be Hiding More Than 10,000 Pre-Columbian Structures
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-amazon-may-be-hiding-more-than-10000-pre-columbian-structures-180983031/
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