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"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans https://arstechni.ca/9UAX #paleoanthropology #homininevolution #extincthominins #anthropology #Archaeology #homoerectus #outofafrica #Denisovans #homolongi #Science #science #skulls
"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans

The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China.

Ars Technica
Natalie Davis 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇺🇦May 23, 2023

"World’s oldest Homo sapiens footprint identified on South Africa’s Cape south coast

(...) The 153,000 year old track was found in the Garden Route National Park, west of the coastal town of Knysna on the Cape south coast. The two previously dated South African sites, Nahoon and Langebaan, have yielded ages of about 124,000 years and 117,000 years respectively."

🔗: https://theconversation.com/worlds-oldest-homo-sapiens-footprint-identified-on-south-africas-cape-south-coast-205310

#SouthAfrica #HomoSapiens #archaeology #HomininEvolution #HumanHistory #HumanOrigins #fossils

World’s oldest ‘Homo sapiens’ footprint identified on South Africa’s Cape south coast

This was an area in which early anatomically modern humans survived, evolved and thrived, before spreading out of Africa to other continents.

The Conversation