Interesting article.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-03/ro...ia/7983864
This is interesting because it pushed the time the Aborigenees arrive in Australia even further back.
Why is this interesting?
Because the Out of Africa theory or Recent African Origin claims that all humans alive are the result of a single migration out of Eastern Africa around 50.000 years ago.
However, when Aborigenees are found in the interior of Australia already at 49.000 years ago, that is a very quick jog from Africa to Australia, considering that the oldest known singular European fossil is 45,000 years old.
In addition, Chinese archeologists have discovered Homo Sapiens in Southern China at around 80.000 years ago.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v52...15696.html
Again, rather difficult if you believe the Out of Africa theory.
The further back, human remains are found outside Africa, the less likely it is that a single Homo Sapiens migration from Africa has populated the world with humans.
A competing thesis is the Multi-Regional Hypothesis, which suggests that the shared ancestor of the different people of the world is not a single Homo Sapiens, but a shared Homo Erectus and then the various modern Sapiens ethnicities being a result of convergent evolution and interbreeding with other Homo species such as Neanderthal (who came from Erectus and were quite human - through convergent evolution).
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-03/ro...ia/7983864
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Working with the Adnyamathanha people over the past nine years, Mr Hamm and colleagues recovered from the one-metre-deep excavations around 4,300 artefacts and 200 bone fragments from 16 mammals and one reptile.
Importantly dating of the artefacts and fossil finds show humans occupied the site from 49,000 to 46,000 years ago.
Mr Hamm said the significance of the site was the combination of its age and geographic location.
The previous oldest-known site in the arid zone, located at Puritjarra in western Central Australia, is around 38,000 years old.
This is interesting because it pushed the time the Aborigenees arrive in Australia even further back.
Why is this interesting?
Because the Out of Africa theory or Recent African Origin claims that all humans alive are the result of a single migration out of Eastern Africa around 50.000 years ago.
However, when Aborigenees are found in the interior of Australia already at 49.000 years ago, that is a very quick jog from Africa to Australia, considering that the oldest known singular European fossil is 45,000 years old.
In addition, Chinese archeologists have discovered Homo Sapiens in Southern China at around 80.000 years ago.
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Here we present evidence from the newly excavated Fuyan Cave in Daoxian (southern China). This site has provided 47 human teeth dated to more than 80,000 years old, and with an inferred maximum age of 120,000 years.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v52...15696.html
Again, rather difficult if you believe the Out of Africa theory.
The further back, human remains are found outside Africa, the less likely it is that a single Homo Sapiens migration from Africa has populated the world with humans.
A competing thesis is the Multi-Regional Hypothesis, which suggests that the shared ancestor of the different people of the world is not a single Homo Sapiens, but a shared Homo Erectus and then the various modern Sapiens ethnicities being a result of convergent evolution and interbreeding with other Homo species such as Neanderthal (who came from Erectus and were quite human - through convergent evolution).