On Sat, 11 Jul 1998 22:59:27 +0200, Hans Kylberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >At 20:30 1998-07-10 -0400, Don wrote: > >>How do explain the article that I point to on my Paleolithic Diet page >>where they write about finding a cooking hearth in the UK that is 400,000 >>years old? My understanding is humans moved north 500,000 years ago. > >Yes they did, but they are not our ancestors. At least according to the >"out of Africa" theory, wich I think holds best, and seems to get more >and more support. Homo Sapiens have migrated in at least three waves, >from something like 130 kya to 70 kya, I dont remember the "exact" >numbers, and probably the latest of them were ancestors to us europeans. Yes that's right, Don. All of that successful ice-age gatherers/hunters- they died out between 40000 and 33000BC. Homo neanderthalensis - a kind of Schwarzenegger-style human (1/3 stronger than us) didn't make it. Something went wrong - we still don't know what... And presently we have to assume that the cro magnon human - anchestor of all humans - came about 40000BC to Europe out of africa where he formed about 120k years back out of what we don't know exactely. That makes a long african savanne time and a relatively short european ice-age (with much hunting and less plants). cheers Amadeus