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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Son of Ra: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] wet period, dry period, do you realize ther was climate change in the Sahara? and an over 2000 year gap of evidence for huiman settlement during the transition. Look at the Sahara today. It's a barrier and has been for several thousand years Now go back in time to when it wasn't a barrier. [/qb][/QUOTE]Even if the Sahara was a barrier(which it was NOT), my source clearly states the first people to occupied the coast of Northern Africa were Africans themselves. You act as if Africans were not living in coastal area before the Neolithic. But more importantly. Lets get down to business... [i]Until very recently, most researchers studying the origins of Homo sapiens focused on the fossils of East Africa and the sophisticated tools and ornaments of famed South African sites such as Blombos Cave. Few scientists thought that much of evolutionary significance had gone on in North Africa, or that the region's big-toothed, somewhat archaic-looking hominins might be closely related to the ancestors of many living people. Now, thanks to new excavations and more accurate dating, North Africa boasts unequivocal signs of modern human behavior as early as anywhere else in the world, including South Africa. [b]Climate reconstructions and fossil studies now suggest that the region was more hospitable during key periods than once thought. The data suggest that the Sahara Desert was a land of lakes and rivers about 130,000 years ago, when moderns first left Africa for sites in what is today Israel.[/b] And new studies of hominin fossils suggest some strong resemblances—and possible evolutionary connections—between North African specimens and fossils representing migrations out of Africa between 130,000 and 40,000 years ago.[/i] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6013/20 [IMG]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tNSFOhb_cGM/TxiojlPkBvI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/1nhGEbGkNpQ/s1600/Fig.3.PNG[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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