There is no need to rewrite the history books, said paleontologist Laszlo Cordos, but the 1.5 million-year-old find recently found in Israel is impressive.
As we wrote, the most ancient remains of human ancestors of one and a half million years old were identified that were discovered in Israel. Prehistoric excavations have recently resumed, and finds collected in recent decades in the National Natural History Collection of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are re-examined. Among them, paleontologist Miriam Belmaker identified the vertebrae of the human lumbar spine, excavated in 1966, and whose age is about one and a half million years.
According to Alon Baras, an anatomical and evolutionary researcher at Bar Ilan University School of Medicine in Israel
This piece of bone defines the age-old debate about African exodus because it clearly demonstrates the existence of several waves of emigration.
It was previously believed that it was a one-time event, but according to the new findings, there were at least two waves of exodus from Africa into Eurasia. As far as we know, in the first wave, about 1.8 million years ago, the ancients arrived in present-day Georgia, where traces of this were found at the archaeological site of Dmanisi, the most important site outside Africa to date.
Because of the discovery, news is circulating that the history books should be rewritten for this reason, but according to László Cordos, this is just an exciting drive. Instead, the discovery, according to the paleontologist, provided further evidence that different types of people migrated in several waves from Africa to Asia between 1.8 and 1.5 million years ago.
During this period, there were at least two different migrations in the use of stone tools, methods of tool making, and possibly in terms of their place in the environment. This new discovery shows that there was not only one migration from Africa to the narrow region of Asia, but even more than that, and this migration was different from each other.
The specialist said.
