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    120,000-Yr-Old Human Found in China


    The 47 human teeth found in Fuyan Cave, Daoxian, China.


    Forty-seven teeth from our species dated to 80,000-120,000 years ago have just been found
    in a cave in southern China, according to a new study that has many important implications
    concerning humanity’s early history.


    The teeth, excavated from Fuyan Cave in Daoxian, southern China, represent the earliest unambiguous evidence for Homo sapiens outside of Africa.

    "They are indeed the earliest Homo sapiens with fully modern morphologies outside of Africa," lead author Wu Liu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences told Discovery News. "At the Levant (much of the eastern Mediterranean), we also have human remains from the sites of Qafzeh and Skhul (in Israel) with similar ages, but these fossils have been described as retaining some primitive features and, thus, are not fully modern."

    The remains are described in the latest issue of the journal Nature.

    Well-dated and well-preserved fossils older than 45,000 years ago have been lacking outside of Africa, although primates themselves originated in Asia. Some researchers have even proposed an "Out of Asia" instead of "Out of Africa" migration path for the first Homo sapiens.

    While the new findings do not resolve that question, they do reveal that our species was in southern China up to 70,000 years before it was in the eastern Mediterranean and Europe. The newly unearthed remains also offer evidence that China during the Pleistocene Era was likely inhabited by multiple groups of humans: our species and another more primitive lineage(s). Prior fossil discoveries show that the primitive Denisovans, for example, were in northern Asia.

    Further complicating the mix is that Neanderthals were also living outside of Africa at the same time. The researchers suspect that the Neanderthals’ presence might have even deterred our species’ migration into Europe, since it took Homo sapiens so long to get there. Intriguingly, Neanderthals went extinct, or perhaps were absorbed into the Homo sapiens population, shortly after our species landed on what was Neanderthal turf.

    "The coincidence between the arrival of H. sapiens to Europe and the Neanderthal extinction has often been interpreted as evidence of the superiority of modern humans, however, we now wonder that if modern humans were already present in southern China more than 80,000 years ago, why were they not capable of entering Europe until 45,000 ago?" co-author María Martinón-Torres of the National Center on Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain, asked.

    "Maybe because Neanderthals were there," she continued, "it was not easy to take over 'their' land."

    She further points out that Neanderthals were already in much lower numbers at the time of Homo sapiens’ European arrival -- Neanderthals often lived in more challenging environments with fewer resources.

    The southern China cave where the teeth were found unfortunately provides no clues on what the culture of Homo sapiens was like there 80,000–120,000 years ago. No prehistoric tools or other telltale artifacts have been found so far at the site.

    Senior author Xiu-jie Wu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences told Discovery News that she and her colleagues "do not think the cave was a living place. Future archaeological findings from this period in other Asian locations may shed some light about the type of culture or adaptations these humans had."


    Homo sapiens originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago.

    There is, however, very good news about the cave site, according to archaeologist Robin Dennell of the University of Exeter. He did not work on the project, but wrote a separate News & Views article, also published in Nature, about the discovery.

    He explained that a flowstone layer covers the entire cave floor and has a minimum age of 80,000 years old. The teeth were found in a sandy clay layer well beneath the stone, which allowed them to be reliably dated.

    Dennell wrote that most researchers believe our species first appeared in East Africa around 190,000 to 160,000 years ago, and subsequently dispersed into the eastern Mediterranean several thousand years later. Since the prevailing theory holds that Homo sapiens originated in or near the tropics, he thinks it makes sense that our early ancestors would have initially dispersed eastward rather than northward, where winter temperatures rapidly then fell below freezing.

    Avoiding cold temperatures could have kept them away from Neanderthals too, Dennell told Discovery News.

    He explained, "We've known for a long time that Europe/Siberia/North China was colonized by H. sapiens much later than southern and southeast Asia. I think the main reasons here were that the Neanderthals were a long-established resident population in northern Eurasia; and sub-freezing winters were a major deterrent to an African-derived H. sapiens until long after they had crossed southern Asia."

    A final implication of the new study is that people today with ancestry from southern China could be directly descended from the very early population of Homo sapiens whose remains consist of the 47 teeth. The scientists said that more research is required to possibly answer that question, or to reveal the group's fate.



    Source: http://news.discovery.com/human/evol...ina-151011.htm



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    Just my opinion based on the work of Chris Thomas' 40 years of studying the Akashic. I like his explanation because it a simple solution to questions asked that usually lead to complex answers that never really solve the problem:

    Cro Magnon Man and Homo Sapien (one in the same) were the most promising prototypes for humanity. Before their accelerated evolution on Atlantis, they existed everywhere on the planet, but in a less evolved state than we would eventually achieve through successful experimentation on Atlantis. Their skeletons are being turned up all over the world. They existed long before the incarnation of individual souls on Atlantis. They had group souls from the Earth

    HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM CRO MAGNON (HOMO SAPIEN)

    Chris: So, we had all these prototypes… When those two planets left the Solar System and created the destruction they did, the Earth adopted the equivalent of the Human life form from one of the other planets. And that other life form we know as Cro-Magnon Man. Another name for Cro-Magnon Man is Homo Sapien, which of course is us, so the Cro-Magnon are our direct ancestor.

    What we had on the planet then were 6 or 7 different types of potential Human Beings & Cro-Magnon looked the most promising. Essentially, we settled down. The Earth provided every single possible need that we could have. And so, for quite a few million years we didn’t progress at all. Bearing in mind that the whole purpose of our Solar System, and particularly Earth, is to develop a body form that could take the whole of the soul. And the Cro-Magnon form, although quite advanced, could not, was not capable of holding the whole soul within the physical body. So we took Cro-Magnon Man, again its all ‘free choice’ involved, so it wasn’t just picked, everybody on the planet was asked if they wanted to go on some kind of acceleration.

    And so we took Cro-Magnon onto an island in the middle of the Atlantic that we know as Atlantis. And there Cro-Magnon was genetically developed. In a very pleasant way, so it was done properly – not the kind of rubbish that GMOs are going through at the moment on Earth.

    Cro-Magnon was developed into something beyond what we are. Because they were capable of having the whole of the soul within the body. Now if you have the whole of the soul within the body, your senses expand to something that we can’t even imagine. We communicated psychically between each other, so we didn’t have language. You could communicate with all living things on the planet, whether that is something like a dolphin, all the way down to a blade of grass. I mean, you couldn’t actually speak to a blade of grass, but you could ask what its function was, how it is constructed, and what its benefits that would be for eating it, or for medicinal purposes. In other words, you can have that psychic communication with plants & animals.

    And that’s how we were originally, [during and after Atlantis - hence the higher civilizations of 15-20,000 years ago, but prior to splitting the soul 7,000 years ago] and that’s how we are intended to be on Earth – the whole of the soul within the body.
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    I will also venture to point out, it is impossible to say with any certainty, that 100.000 years ago the "northern" regions where actually cold. It may be that what is now the Sahara desert, could have been covered with lush forests, that Antartica was not covered with ice and was habitable, that the Rainforests in Brazil where actually barren lands...

    Notions that attempt to suggest the planet has not changed much over such great spans of time should be regarded with skepticism.
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