cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/43462600
This map shows the spread of Homo sapiens out of Africa and across the globe, with very approximate dates.
Author: Altaileopard in 2006
Technically prehistory but OK.
Would be interesting to have an update. There’s been a lot of new discoveries in the last 20 years.
DScratch@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
very approximate dates
North America has evidence of humans 131,000 years ago.
sci.news/…/cerutti-mastodon-site-humans-north-ame…
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 days ago
Interesting that they repeatedly use the word “hominims” and not “humans.” The point being that hominims includes all species of humans and chimpanzees.
So, they’re talking about any of a number of possible human species (there were six as recently as 50Kyrs ago) and possibly even some very clever chimps.
DScratch@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
It’s only very recently seen other great apes enter the Stone Age.
So this is either humans, or a now-extinct species, I guess?