Originally Posted by [email protected] (Post 525478)

"Didn’t the tribes of Europe migrate from North Africa"(quote from Jambutty)

When investigating so far back into PRE history the research has had several theories in our time, but analysis of the genes in world populations is making the prehistoric migrations in ancient peoples clearer.

Until recently it was theorised that ALL homo sapiens originated in the African rift valley, but recent theories based on genetic research have revealed another source in Asia which gave rise to 'Java man' - another variant and distinctive type of homo sapiens

Originally Posted by [email protected] (Post 525503)

There was an article in the National Geographic
Human Fossil Adds Fuel to Evolution Debate
an extract-
Java man" of Indonesia, for instance, was originally placed in the 500,000-year-old range
New technology has allowed for more precise dating of fossils, and recent reassessments put the age of Java man at about 1.5 million years old, contemporaneous with other fossil finds in Africa. The age of fossils found in China has similarly been revised upward.


The use of the word 'contemporous' indicates that there was development on both continents at the same time - so they dont know which was first now