Artifact discovered in China suggests that human ancestors left Africa over 2 million years ago – Brinkwire

A team of researchers discovered tools and bones in China that suggest that early human ancestors left Africa and migrated to Asia 270,000 years earlier than expected. Until this recent discovery, the skeletal remains found in Dmanisi, Georgia, more than a million years old, were considered the first evidence of human civilization outside of the world. ;Africa.

From Africa to China

Artifacts that reveal colonized human ancestors in East Asia more than 2 million years ago. The tools were found in Shangchen, on the Chinese Loess Plateau, by researchers led by Professor Zhaoyu Zhu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Artifacts that were discovered included scrapers, pebbles, a notch, sharp stones and hammers.

The researchers claim that all the artifacts show signs of use and most were quartzite and quartz, probably came from the foothills of the Qinling mountain. The researchers also discovered animal bones older than 2 million years old.

Professor Robin Dennell, of Exter University and also involved in the study, said that this new discovery means that it is important to reconsider the moment when the first humans left Africa. [19659002LeplateaudeLoess

Professor David Lordkipanidze, Director General of the Georgian National Museum, said that before these new discoveries, it was still believed that humans had left Africa there is at least one million years. He continued that many experts believed that early humans already had sophisticated stone tools and that the anatomy of their bodies was advanced but this new discovery is different.

Archaeologists believed that early humans evolved for more than 2 million years. known as Homo habilis. These humans were then followed by Homo erectus, who thought to have a more athletic build and left Africa to colonize Europe and Africa. In 2015, experts claimed to have found a common ancestor for all humans, homo sapiens.

A lower jaw found in the Afar region of Ethiopia reportedly belonged to a new species of the homo family and researchers would have digitally reconstructed other old jaws that they claimed corresponded to this fossil.

"To have a glimpse of the very first phase of the evolution of our lineage is particularly exciting." LD 350-1 reveals that many anatomical models that we see in Homo, two million years old , were established much earlier in the evolution of the genus, "said Dr. Brian Villmoare, of the University of Nevada, Las Vega in 2015.

The study was published in the newspaper Nature.