When did modern humans leave Africa? Primitive stone tools discovered at Jebel Faya in the United Arab Emirates suggest that it may have been more than 100,000 years ago. Lower sea levels would have made it possible to cross the Bab al-Mandab strait that separates the Horn of Africa from the Arabian Peninsula.  There’s a map […]

Voice of America offers interviews with researchers and photographs of the controversial teeth and tools unearthed at Qesem Cave, Israel. “Any new material that we find, especially from this poorly documented time period 200,000 to 400,000 years ago, is great and necessary for our ongoing interpretation of human evolution and Neanderthal evolution,” commented anthropologist Shara […]