New discoveries of homo sapiens
29
Jan
In na Israeli cave called Misliya, facial fragments were found with the jaw and several teeth
that can be dated in about 200,000 years, Homo sapiens is older than we thought, and then migrated from Africa
Facial fragments, including the jaw part and several teeth were found at the archaeological site Misliya Cave, located on Mount Carmel , it bone are between 177,000 and 194,000 years old.
Co-author Rolf Quan told the magazine: “It’s an exciting discovery, it provides clear evidence that our ancestors migrated from Africa much sooner than we believed.”
The fossil that was called Misliya-1 has teeth like modern humans, as well as showing characteristics of the human species, and other evidence showed that they hunted large animals and used fire, stone tools and sophisticated blades for the time were also found on site.
Also group immigration through the rivers, suggests techniques of expansion of territory and strengthen the idea of homo sapiens.
Recently other fossils of about 300,000 years have been found in Morocco, and then in Israel, which were already lights on this immigration, and this reinforced the idea that they traced a route along the Nile valley (the need for water) and not by a route through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the coast of Saudi Arabia, then to the lesta of Asia and the Indian subcontinent, said another co-author Israel Hershkobitz of Tel Aviv University.
The fact that they went in small groups and along the rivers shows a strategy of conquest and not of nomadic tribes in exodus, which further strengthens the sapiens hypothesis.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/world-s-oldest-homo-sapiens-fossils-found-morocco
The humans of Mislya were nomadic and migrated throughout the region in search of food and sought caves to shelter.
