Article Image

IPFS News Link • Archaeology

New evidence about the ancient humans who occupied Asia is cascading in

• arclein

Many new hominin fossils found over the past decade, particularly in China, are now tentatively dated as older than 60,000 years, calling into question the idea that modern humans migrated out of Africa only 60,000 years ago. Take the recent discovery of two modern human teeth found in the Luna cave in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. When my research team and I dated the flowstones ?" rock that forms from precipitation inside a cave ?" directly above and below the location of the two human teeth using an absolute dating method called uranium-series, we fou