Re: Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago

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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