The earliest modern humans outside Africa

Israel Hershkovitz; Gerhard W. Weber; Rolf Quam; Mathieu Duval; Rainer Grün; Leslie Kinsley; Avner Ayalon; Miryam Bar-Matthews; Helene Valladas; Norbert Mercier; Juan Luis Arsuaga; María Martinón-Torres; José María Bermúdez De Castro; Cinzia Fornai; Laura Martín-Francés; Rachel Sarig; Hila May; Viktoria A. Krenn; Viviane Slon; Laura Rodríguez; Rebeca García; Carlos Lorenzo; Jose Miguel Carretero; Amos Frumkin; Ruth Shahack-Gross; Daniella E.Bar Yosef Mayer; Yaming Cui; Xinzhi Wu; Natan Peled; Iris Groman-Yaroslavski; Lior Weissbrod; Reuven Yeshurun; Alexander Tsatskin; Yossi Zaidner; Mina Weinstein-Evron

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The earliest modern humans outside Africa

Israel Hershkovitz^*, Gerhard W. Weber, Rolf Quam, Mathieu Duval, Rainer Grün, Leslie Kinsley, Avner Ayalon, Miryam Bar-Matthews, Helene Valladas, Norbert Mercier, Juan Luis Arsuaga, María Martinón-Torres, José María Bermúdez De Castro, Cinzia Fornai, Laura Martín-Francés, Rachel Sarig, Hila May, Viktoria A. Krenn, Viviane Slon, Laura RodríguezRebeca García, Carlos Lorenzo, Jose Miguel Carretero, Amos Frumkin, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Daniella E.Bar Yosef Mayer, Yaming Cui, Xinzhi Wu, Natan Peled, Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, Lior Weissbrod, Reuven Yeshurun, Alexander Tsatskin, Yossi Zaidner, Mina Weinstein-Evron

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To date, the earliest modern human fossils found outside of Africa are dated to around 90,000 to 120,000 years ago at the Levantine sites of Skhul and Qafzeh. A maxilla and associated dentition recently discovered at Misliya Cave, Israel, was dated to 177,000 to 194,000 years ago, suggesting that members of the Homo sapiens clade left Africa earlier than previously thought.This finding changes our view on modern human dispersal and is consistent with recent genetic studies, which have posited the possibility of an earlier dispersal of Homo sapiens around 220,000 years ago.The Misliyamaxilla is associated with full-fledged Levallois technology in the Levant, suggesting that the emergence of this technology is linked to the appearance of Homo sapiens in the region, as has been documented in Africa.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	456-459
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	359
Issue number	6374
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap8369
State	Published - 26 Jan 2018

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Hershkovitz, I., Weber, G. W., Quam, R., Duval, M., Grün, R., Kinsley, L., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Valladas, H., Mercier, N., Arsuaga, J. L., Martinón-Torres, M., De Castro, J. M. B., Fornai, C., Martín-Francés, L., Sarig, R., May, H., Krenn, V. A., Slon, V., ... Weinstein-Evron, M. (2018). The earliest modern humans outside Africa. Science, 359(6374), 456-459. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap8369

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