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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] primary source journal article http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6374/456 [b]The earliest modern humans outside Africa[/b] Israel Hershkovitz1,2,*,†, Gerhard W. Weber3,†, Rolf Quam4,5,6,†, Mathieu Duval7,8, Rainer Grün7,9, Leslie Kinsley9, Avner Ayalon10, Miryam Bar-Matthews10, Helene Valladas11, Norbert Mercier12, Juan Luis Arsuaga5,13, María Martinón-Torres8,14, José María Bermúdez de Castro8,14, Cinzia Fornai3,15, Laura Martín-Francés8,16, Rachel Sarig2,17, Hila May1,2, Viktoria A. Krenn3,15, Viviane Slon1, Laura Rodríguez5,18,19, Rebeca García5,18, Carlos Lorenzo20,21, Jose Miguel Carretero5,18, Amos Frumkin22, Ruth Shahack-Gross23, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer24,25, Yaming Cui26, Xinzhi Wu26, Natan Peled27, Iris Groman-Yaroslavski28, Lior Weissbrod28, Reuven Yeshurun28, Alexander Tsatskin28, Yossi Zaidner28,29, Mina Weinstein-Evron28 Science 26 Jan 2018: Vol. 359, Issue 6374, pp. 456-459 DOI: 10.1126/science.aap8369 [b]Earliest modern humans out of Africa[/b] Recent paleoanthropological studies have suggested that modern humans migrated from Africa as early as the beginning of the Late Pleistocene, 120,000 years ago. Hershkovitz et al. now suggest that early modern humans were already present outside of Africa more than 55,000 years earlier (see the Perspective by Stringer and Galway-Witham). During excavations of sediments at Mount Carmel, Israel, they found a fossil of a mouth part, a left hemimaxilla, with almost complete dentition. The sediments contain a series of well-defined hearths and a rich stone-based industry, as well as abundant animal remains. Analysis of the human remains, and dating of the site and the fossil itself, indicate a likely age of at least 177,000 years for the fossil—making it the oldest member of the Homo sapiens clade found outside Africa. Science, this issue p. 456; see also p. 389 [b]Abstract[/b] To date, the earliest modern human fossils found outside of Africa are dated to around 90,000 to 120,000 years ago at the Levantine sites of Skhul and Qafzeh. A maxilla and associated dentition recently discovered at Misliya Cave, Israel, was dated to 177,000 to 194,000 years ago, suggesting that members of the Homo sapiens clade left Africa earlier than previously thought. This finding changes our view on modern human dispersal and is consistent with recent genetic studies, which have posited the possibility of an earlier dispersal of Homo sapiens around 220,000 years ago. The Misliya maxilla is associated with full-fledged Levallois technology in the Levant, suggesting that the emergence of this technology is linked to the appearance of Homo sapiens in the region, as has been documented in Africa. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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