Teeth found in Israel push back the date of early human migrations Israel Hershkovitz, Tel Aviv University
THE history of our species needs rewriting – again. A jawbone from a cave in Israel is at least 177,000 years old, indicating that Homo sapiens left its African birthplace at least 50,000 years earlier than thought. A second study implies our forebears roamed widely.
Our species evolved in Africa in the last few hundred thousand years. About 70,000 years ago, people spread to every continent.
But there were earlier forays out of Africa. The oldest firm evidence is from Skhul…
