Saturday, March 31, 2012

Out of Africa


125,000yrs ago- humans move out of Sahara northeast direction through the Sinai desert (climate differences made the area lush and possible to pass through)

100,000yrs ago- 10 human burial remains in Israel (belief in afterlife)

90,000yrs ago- area returns to desert and life once again became impossible

70,000yrs ago- tools found on a site in Yemen(back then it was a fertile plain); 2nd successful crossing

42,000yrs old- beads found in Turkey

40,000yrs ago- last iceage-> tools(oldest bone needle) found in Siberia and in Romania (they travelled via the river Danube: 10% of all Europeans can trace their genetic lineage to one female individual)

20,000yrs ago- footprints found in Australia

14,000yrs ago- first North American people came from the Siberian tribes (similar facial features and dwelling designs) and they moved in across Alaska as a corridor through the ice appeared in the past (their origin stories tell of ice crossings). They hunted woolly mammoths (clovis points have been found in woolly mammoth skeletons).

13,000yrs ago- first South America people's tools were found in Amazon basin. In Chile, remains of a hut was found with footprints, remains of game (Mastadon) and potato skins.

*people moved along the Pacific coast from the North to South Americas.

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