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Rock Painting NamibiaClick me for bigger Image80,000 years ago, a group of approximately 250 people undertook a single exodus via the southern route, according to (Dr Steven Oppenheimer) of Oxford University, his evidence? Genetic tracking of Mitochondria D.N.A., shows that only one line of humans came out of Africa.

Climate maps and sea level charts that shows that the Northern route of Africa was impassable around this time, but the sea level was low enough to make travelling from Africa to Yemen more feasible. Following the single exodus to Yemen, our ancestors dispersed to colonize other part of the world.

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Malaysia
Some group stayed within the region, others moved east. In Malaysia traces of ash-dating back to the great Mount Toba eruption in Sumatra 74,000 years ago, wee found on stone tools left by modern humans in Kota Tampra, a wooded valley near Penang. Anthropologist Zuraima Majidr director of the centre for archaeological research Malaysia discovered this evidence.

Australia
Australian Aborigines have a number of unique genetic lines that leads straight back to the first modern human to survive outside of Africa. The first group arrived 70,000 years ago and left cave paintings showing creatures from a vanished world dated 61,000 BCE. In addition to this were the rock paintings of Namibia South West Africa about 60,000 BCE.

Middle Eastern Countries 50,000 BCE
En route to Australia from Africa our ancestors left behind colonies that made their own journey further to the east. One group moved from Asia to China and beyond while another went west from India to Himalayans. SwazilandOthers went onto the vast Asia steppes while the remaining colonies went to Arabian Gulf. Hence the creation of the Middle Eastern Countries, Syria, Levant, Turkey, The Balkans and Europe.

Ngwenya Culture
About 45,000 years ago some our ancestors still in East and Central Africa moved further south. They established the first iron mine called Ngwenya Iron Mine in Swaziland South African. Mr Adrian Boshier field research officer for the Museum of Man and Science in Johannesburg South African discovered this evidence. Which was also supported by Carbon Dating and article publication in the New York Times on 8th of February 1970.

The Flint Stone ArtAbout 35,000 years ago, some our ancestors who are well established in South and Central Africa began to express their artistic prowess. Stone Age SkullThe evidence is from the elegance of prehistoric African art unearthed in southern Africa, presently located in the Pretoria Museum, approximately 30,000 years old. Cut by flint stone tools by prehistoric indigenous Africans. In addition was the reconstruction of a stone age African skull-cast, such African lived during the same period as the artist who made the original cast about 25,000 BCE.

Bearing Strait
About 20,000 years ago our ancestors in India, South-east Asia, China, Mongolia and Siberia, Cross the Bearing Strait. This route remain impassable for another 8,000 years

Meadowcroft USA 16,000 BCE
Venus Of WillendorfOn the Ohio River in Pennsylvania, the Meadowcroft rock shelter settlement site holds key archaeological clues to American ancestry. Meadowcroft is the oldest American sites. The Meadowcroft site contains artefacts dating to around 16,000 BCE. Some of the artefacts from Meadowcroft bore concise similarities to those discovered in China about 28,000 BCE.

The evidence from Meadowcroft and other American sites suggests that humans did not migrate to North America via one route as previously thought. That population bearing different genetic lines appeared to have entered North America through different routes and times, from Central Asia, China, Malaysia, Japan and Siberia

To illustrate the Africans artistic prowess and spirit of adventure, here are quotations: "Grimaldi 10,000 BCE," (indigenous South African) "sculptor in Monomotapa," (South Africa) "carved the first known statue of a human body." "Europeans misnamed it, "Venus Of Willendorf," it was confiscated from Africa and place in the Museum of Vienna, Austria in Europe."

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