Scientists at Oxford University (England) have discovered remains belonging to an ancient man outside Africa and the Levant. The age of the find is about one hundred thousand years. The discovery makes untenable the assumption that the main wave of migration of people from Africa began 60 thousand years ago. This is reported by Science Alert.
According to the generally accepted hypothesis, the first Homo sapiens appeared in Africa 200-400 thousand years ago. It is believed that the settlement of modern people from the African continent began 177 thousand years ago, when they came to the territory of the Levant, east of the Mediterranean Sea. People currently living in Eurasia, Australia and America are the descendants of those who migrated 60 thousand years ago.
However, recent archaeological finds have shown that Homo sapiens could have entered Eurasia as early as 120 thousand years ago. Researchers have found a phalanx of a toe at Al Wusta in the Nefud Desert in northern Saudi Arabia. Dating with the help of uranium-thorium, luminescence methods and the method of electron paramagnetic resonance showed that the age of the bone reaches 86-95 thousand years. Thus, evidence was obtained that modern humans were present in this region even before the main wave of settlement.
In January 2016, an international team of researchers proved that the age of the human remains found in the Israeli cave of Misliya in 2007 reaches 200 thousand years. In addition, human remains were found in South and Central China, the age of which was 70-120 thousand years.