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Primum Sapienti wrote:
> 
> https://www.newsweek.com/human-evolution-rainforests-archaeology-west- 
> africa-ivory-coast-2036488
> 
> Humans were living in rainforests roughly
> 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier
> than was previously thought—and may have been
> an important center for early human evolution.

Oh, honey, TONS of red flags!  TONS!

You're clearly no student of Occam's Razor...

:  While we know that humans first originated in Africa
: some 300,000 years ago before dispersing across the
: globe

Humans left evidence for the oldest throwing spears in
Europe about 100,000 years before that.

Do they mean "Modern" humans? In which case they're
lying.

ARCHAIC TYPES were in west Africa 13k years ago, yet it's
pretending modern humans were there 180k?

:  The tools were subsequently lost during the Second Ivorian
:  Civil War in 2011; and at the time, it was not possible to
:  precisely date the tools nor determine the ecology of the
:  region at the time that the sediments were deposited.

Well color me surprised...

: "Several recent climate models suggested the area could have
: been

Several recent climate models said the Maldives would be
submerged by now. When that didn't happen the "Climate Model"
folks determined that sea level rise was EVEN WORSE than they
thought!  One cite claimed 3x worse...

What's 3x worse than not being under a foot of water? Not
being under 3 feet of water?

Again, we have fossil proof of the presence of archaic types
in west Africa 13k years ago.

There has long been speculation, and some argue evidence, for
crossings between west African and the iberian peninsula...

But, if you have reading comprehension, you don't need me to
tell you when you see toilet paper splattered with vague
terms such as "Could have" and "suggest" you know it's bullshit.

Occam;s Razor.

The problem is that you line up "Suggests" and "Could have"
like a string of pearls, even if just one of those pearls
turns out to be false your fantasy is lost forever...

: he site was since been destroyed by mining activity during
: the COVID-19 pandemic.

So they found & examined a site that doesn't even exist anymore.

Wow. No red flag there...

The whole thing is propaganda. It's reassuring nimrods that
Out of Africa purity is gospel, and that they can analyze things
that don't exist to prove it.










> 
> This is the conclusion of an international
> team of researchers who re-examined an
> archaeological site in West Africa from which
> stone tools of previously uncertain
> age—including picks and smaller retouched
> tools—had been uncovered.
> ...
> "Before our study, the oldest secure evidence
> for habitation in African rainforests was
> around 18 thousand years ago, and the oldest
> evidence of rainforest habitation anywhere
> came from southeast Asia at about 70 thousand
> years ago," said lead author and archaeologist
> Eslem Ben Arous, of Spain's National Centre
> for Human Evolution Research, in a statement.
> ...
> 
> 
> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08613-y
> Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests
> 150 thousand years ago
> 
> Abstract
> Humans emerged across Africa shortly before
> 300 thousand years ago (ka). Although this
> pan-African evolutionary process implicates
> diverse environments in the human story, the
> role of tropical forests remains poorly
> understood. Here we report a clear
> association between late Middle Pleistocene
> material culture and a wet tropical forest
> in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of
> present-day rainforest. Twinned optically
> stimulated luminescence and electron spin
> resonance dating methods constrain the onset
> of human occupations at Bété I to around
> 150 ka, linking them with Homo sapiens. Plant
> wax biomarker, stable isotope, phytolith and
> pollen analyses of associated sediments all
> point to a wet forest environment. The
> results represent the oldest yet known clear
> association between humans and this habitat
> type. The secure attribution of stone tool
> assemblages with the wet forest environment
> demonstrates that Africa’s forests were not
> a major ecological barrier for H. sapiens as
> early as around 150 ka.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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