Humankind's odyssey from Africa began more than two million years ago
July 12, 2018 by Michelle Langley, The Conversation
Can you imagine walking 14,000km? Trekking across wide savannas, down creek beds, along mountain chains in terrain that is new and home to foreign types of plants and animals? Can I eat this? What is that?
This long excursion – once thought only to have been attempted late in the journey of humankind – has been getting pushed further and further back in time thanks to advancing archaeological research.
Findings published in Nature today have extended the start of our worldwide trekking back to beyond 2.1 million years ago.
Read more at:
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-humankind-odyssey-africa-began-million.html#jCp
