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Human Origin Hominids

Olduvai Footprint Central Africa And West & South African Coast
By around 1,500,000 BCE Some of our ancestors migrated inland into East and Central Africa, as well as South East African coast. By around 1,500,000 BCE Some of our ancestors migrated inland into East and Central Africa, as well as South East African coast.

By around 800,000 BCE Some of our ancestors in East and Central Africa, migrated further inland into West Africa, as well as both South West African and South African coast.

Some of them went on to colonize Northern cost of Africa via Morocco. The evidence was attributed to the skulls of Atlantropus (450,000 BCE) found in Morocco and Algeria. They survived mainly on seafood.

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Early Migration Lope Garbon West Africa Ancient Civilization

0.5 Million Years Lope Garbon West Africa an ongoing research
Depiction of the Lope Hunters in action In the year 1999, an astonishing discovery was made in a small clearing in the middle of the tropical forest of Lope in Garbon.

Front View A French archaeologist discovered artefacts dating back to half a million years. Some of these artefacts consisted of paintings depicting how the people hunted wild animals using nets made from rope trees to trap them. In addition over 100 different kind of pottery were discovered suggesting there were many different tribes living harmoniously together.

You are looking at the reconstructed face of one of the oldest-known modern humans, a woman who lived perhaps 100,000 years ago. She may be a member of the population that gave rise to all anatomically modern Homo sapiens, who migrated and survived out of Africa. Facial reconstruction expert Richard Neave of Manchester, England, created this three-dimensional representation from the cast of the skull uncovered in the Qafzeh cave in Israel in 1969. The cast was provided by the Natural History Museum of London.

Side View Rebuilding the features of a human face from skeletal remains is "done in anatomical way," says Neave. "It's a bit like dissection in reverse ... I used a soft wax and just re-created over the surface of the skull all the facial muscles. The eyes were inserted and all the basic underlying muscular structure was rebuilt over the face."

The result is the reconstructed face of a woman who lived relatively close — geographically and chronologically to the African "real Eve." Her visage may give us a glimpse of what the genetic relative of all humans may have looked like.

"There are always areas of uncertainty," says Neave. "We don't know the shape of the ears, the tip of nose, the line of vermilion of the lips ... We do know the basic proportions of the face, whether the lips protruded forward or not, whether the eyes sloped upwards or downwards."

Neave reiterated that this woman, known scientifically as "Qafzeh 9," was truly modern, and was anatomically and evolutionarily no different from humans alive today. To learn more please click here