vast new areas of the Earth.
cut off the icy Arctic current to the North, while the warm Japan current played upon the South coast.
the New World, perhaps originally more than 100 thousands of years ago (ka) and probably on several excursions.
oceanic channel 0.9 to 0.8 Ma [1, 2]. We have no evidence to suggest that they knew how to make boats so early.
kilometers wide nearly a million years ago [3-6]. Morwood et al. [1, 2] have concluded that Homo erectus was capable of repeated water crossings using water-craft, by the beginning of the middle Pleistocene, 0.7-0.9 Ma.
Some 6 million years ago we split from a common ancestor with chimps. Fossils found at the key sites shown on the map below reveal that hominins then diversified into many species and spread far from their ancestral home in Africa. Click on each site to learn more about what we've found there.
resource use & coastal settlements by Hs.
Here, we provide a long-term & evolutionary perspective of these behaviors.
dates to MIS-5 & -4.
Africa during this time frame.
particularly often in (near)coastal MSA sites.
- more formal evolutionary models & research strategies.