Indigenous Australians most ancient civilisation on Earth, extensive DNA study confirms. Humans Left Africa For Asia Just 60,000 Years Ago. June 12, 2013 redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Modern humans did not leave Africa prior to the massive eruption of Sumatra´s volcano Mount Toba 74,000 years ago, according to a new study appearing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Rather, Professor Martin Richards of the University of Huddersfield and colleagues have concluded that genetic evidence supports the belief that they departed for Asia approximately 60,000 years ago. Their findings refute a recent theory which had suggested that there was archaeological evidence establishing the presence of people in the southern part of the continent prior to the super-eruption, the university said in a statement. Previous research completed by Richards used mitochondrial DNA evidence to show that anatomically modern men and women departed from Africa via a “southern coastal route” from the Horn and through Arabia some 14,000 years after the eruption of Mount Toba. Paleolothic: Before 10,000 BC.
The term "Paleolithic" was coined by archaeologist John Lubbock in 1865.[6] It derives from Greek: παλαιός, palaios, "old"; and λίθος, lithos, "stone", literally meaning "old age of the stone" or "Old Stone Age.
" Human evolution[edit] Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species. Paleogeography and climate[edit] The Paleolithic climate consisted of a set of glacial and interglacial periods. The climate of the Paleolithic Period spanned two geologic epochs known as the Pliocene and the Pleistocene. During the Pliocene, continents continued to drift from possibly as far as 250 km from their present locations to positions only 70 km from their current location. Cave artwork found in Spain is confirmed as oldest in Europe at 40,800 years old and could have been painted by Neanderthals. The Palaeolithic paintings in northern Spain have been precisely dated for the first timeThe results proving that cave art was first painted in Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought By Graham Smith Published: 18:00 GMT, 14 June 2012 | Updated: 18:00 GMT, 14 June 2012 Europe's oldest cave artwork was today confirmed to be at least 40,800 years old.
The Palaeolithic paintings in northern Spain have been precisely dated for the first time, proving the art form began in Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. This means the cave paintings were created by either the first anatomically modern humans in the area - first thought to exist 41,500 years ago - or by Neanderthals. Record-breaker: The 'Panel of Hands' artwork in the El Castillo cave in northern Spain.
The paintings were created by either the first anatomically modern humans in the area - first thought to exist 41,500 years ago - or by Neanderthals This can cause contamination, leading to an inaccurate result. Inside Lascaux: A LIFE Magazine Photographer's Amazing Story, 1947. The story is so improbable, so marvelous, that it feels more like the remnant of a dream, or a half-remembered myth, rather than something that unfolded within living memory. . . .
September 12, 1940. A warm afternoon in southwestern France. As two schoolboys hunt rabbits on a ridge covered with pine, oak and blackberry brambles, their dog, Robot, excitedly chases a hare down a hole in the ground beside a downed tree. As boys will, the youngsters begin to dig, widening the hole, removing rocks — until they find themselves not merely in another world, but another time. Mammoth-bone flute proves that German cavemen were playing music more than 40,000 years BC. By Rob Waugh Published: 13:14 GMT, 24 May 2012 | Updated: 13:14 GMT, 24 May 2012 Music was flourishing in Europe in 40,000BC - millennia before Beethoven or the Beatles.
European's earliest ancestors were playing musical instruments and showing artistic creativity more than 40,000 years ago, a study has shown. Evidence of the musicians was unearthed in Germany in the form of primitive flutes made from bird bones and mammoth ivory. This bird-bone flute was found in a cave in Germany and is thought to date from 42-43,000 years ago Mammoth-bone flute: The finds, described in the Journal of Human Evolution, are from Geissenkloesterle Cave in the Swabian Jura region of southern Germany A new system of fossil dating confirmed the age of animal bones excavated in the same rock layers as the instruments and examples of early art.
The bones, probably the remains of meals, bore cuts and marks from hunting and eating. Early artists?