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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08613-y
Humans in AfricarCOs 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
C||te drCOIvoire, a region of present-day
rainforest. Twinned optically stimulated
luminescence and electron spin resonance
dating methods constrain the onset of human
occupations at B|-t|- I to around 150rCeka, 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
AfricarCOs forests were not a major ecological
barrier for H. sapiens as early as around
150rCeka.
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On 2/27/25 12:40 AM, Primum Sapienti wrote:

Abstract
Humans emerged across Africa shortly before
300 thousand years ago (ka).

Humans stretch back at least 2 million years ago.

There's probably been only one human species for the last 400k to 1.5
million years ago, starting with the chromosome fusion...

There are many who claim that there just plain isn't enough genetic
distance to even warrant the existence of Pan. That, Chimps should
be reclassified as Homo, human.

Either your cite was written by extremely ignorant people or it was
created specifically for quote mining. Not science, social engineering.

There's been plenty of example before, in other areas of "Science."
One is the of the Oral Vaccine Theory on the origins of AIDS in man,
where on a since-deleted CDC web page they got everything wrong. I
remember trying to explain to someone, here on usenet at the time, that
the CDC knew every detail of the Oral Vaccine Theory, that it was their
job, and if they got every plank of that theory spectacularly wrong it
wasn't because they didn't know, but that the page in question was
written by PR nimrods to serve a social function: Quell fears.

When stupid things come from what is supposed to be a legitimate
source you can either decide that stupid is not stupid, that you are
smarter than everyone at Nature or it's not about science but the
well established social program.

P.S. There were no "Anatomically Modern Humans" in existence 300k
years ago. None. Go ahead. Prove it to yourself. Cite them, the
actual finds. There were even distinctly archaics in Africa at least
13,000 years ago... and elsewhere. Not just Africa.
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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 thoughtrCoand may have been
an important center for early human evolution.

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
agerCoincluding picks and smaller retouched
toolsrCohad 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 AfricarCOs 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 C||te drCOIvoire, a region of
present-day rainforest. Twinned optically
stimulated luminescence and electron spin
resonance dating methods constrain the onset
of human occupations at B|-t|- I to around
150rCeka, 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 AfricarCOs forests were not
a major ecological barrier for H. sapiens as
early as around 150rCeka.




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On 10.4.2025. 5:37, 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 thoughtrCoand may have been
an important center for early human evolution.

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
agerCoincluding picks and smaller retouched
toolsrCohad 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 AfricarCOs 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 C||te drCOIvoire, a region of
present-day rainforest. Twinned optically
stimulated luminescence and electron spin
resonance dating methods constrain the onset
of human occupations at B|-t|- I to around
150rCeka, 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 AfricarCOs forests were not
a major ecological barrier for H. sapiens as
early as around 150rCeka.

The "ecological barrier" were trading routes towards coastline. We
need salt.
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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 thoughtrCoand 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
agerCoincluding picks and smaller retouched
toolsrCohad 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 AfricarCOs 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 C||te drCOIvoire, a region of
present-day rainforest. Twinned optically
stimulated luminescence and electron spin
resonance dating methods constrain the onset
of human occupations at B|-t|- I to around
150rCeka, 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 AfricarCOs forests were not
a major ecological barrier for H. sapiens as
early as around 150rCeka.

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On 4/10/25 4:12 AM, Mario Petrinovic wrote:

-a-a-a-a-a-a-a The "ecological barrier" were trading routes towards coastline.
We need salt.

Lol! Click the url and read the story!

The so called "Finds" don't exist and neither does the site they
were supposedly found in. But they know stuff, cus they did
SCIENCE and stuff!

Oo!

Gives you good bumps, now don't it?

The piece is garbage, and we always knew it because west Africa
was the home & haunt to archaic types even 13k years ago...
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