Posted: Nov 15, 2010 6:04 pm
I think that problem you refer too was because it was too cutting edge bearing in mind it had to be written, scripted and filmed. If you watched the Walking with Cavemen series of just a few years before there was even less new discoveries to put in the documentary side of the series.
If I were to retract anything it would be on grounds that all these discoveries are taking a few years to hit the mainstream public media, has still to be collaborated between the other sciences to fit the jigsaw, and there is more researchers looking into this than ever before so new finds are just coming to the surface.
In that light I would say 60k might have been the lowest age out of Africa, and there is no indication of it happening again afterwards. But as we know some migration occurred earlier at 100k, but failed. So we have a 40k time period where humans were attempting to get out of Africa and who can say if a limited few made it, or made the first crossing of the Red Sea pre 60k, the main party halting until 60k but a very few travelling before then?
On the whole I guess we are lucky to get a time margin even that wide, or at all.
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Oh I should add the Chinese used to favour the idea of not coming Out of Africa. Having a 60k bone might err towards that belief if Out of Africa happened at 60k. If however Out of Africa occurred before 60k then its remains a valid theory that mankind is related.
If I were to retract anything it would be on grounds that all these discoveries are taking a few years to hit the mainstream public media, has still to be collaborated between the other sciences to fit the jigsaw, and there is more researchers looking into this than ever before so new finds are just coming to the surface.
In that light I would say 60k might have been the lowest age out of Africa, and there is no indication of it happening again afterwards. But as we know some migration occurred earlier at 100k, but failed. So we have a 40k time period where humans were attempting to get out of Africa and who can say if a limited few made it, or made the first crossing of the Red Sea pre 60k, the main party halting until 60k but a very few travelling before then?
On the whole I guess we are lucky to get a time margin even that wide, or at all.
ps
Oh I should add the Chinese used to favour the idea of not coming Out of Africa. Having a 60k bone might err towards that belief if Out of Africa happened at 60k. If however Out of Africa occurred before 60k then its remains a valid theory that mankind is related.