October
16
/ 2020
New research shows that the environment is a key factor in mapping the prehistoric routes that humans took when they headed out of Africa towards Europe. More favorable climates enticed Homo sapiens into creating detours along that long journey to new lands. About 100,000 years ago, anatomically modern humans were in the Levant at sites such as Qafzeh and Skhul in Israel. But it seems that they were only temporary settlements, and scientists believe that more permanent settlements only date back around 43,000 years ago in the region, according to a press release by the University of Cologne. The ‘Early Ahmarian’ period, as it is called, marked the time when humans were spreading across the Levant on their way towards
