Homo erectus left Africa by boat, possibly hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens even evolved
Posted On: Jun 13th, 2018 at 13:17
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I am, of course, absolutely and utterly unsurprised by this notion being put forward by Professor Daniel Everett.
This would go a long way to dismissing many of the ridiculous ideas constantly being put forward by archaeologists and, most importantly, another theory that kills off the out-of-Africa model.
I would be much more comfortable with a homo sapiens ‘out-of-Africa’ model that utilises sea going vessels to leave the continent, rather than the current model that suggests we walked out of Africa and into the near east, and from there spread around the world. It is quite clear to me humans arrived in the Americas by boat, long before the accepted model, and if Homo erectus was canoeing around the world long before human beings even evolved then that is more than a smoking gun.
I take my hat off to Professor Everett for thinking outside of the box.
Again, the tide is slowly turning…
