A new analysis involving volcanic glass found in Ethiopia reveals humans lived in what could have been drought conditions in the Horn of Africa 74,000 years ago, forcing them to adapt, and possibly travel, to maximize available resources.
Contrary to what we may have assumed about the migration of modern humans out of Africa , at least some movement may have been driven, not by ' A new analysis involving volcanic glass found in Ethiopia reveals humans lived in what could have been drought conditions in the Horn of Africa 74,000 years ago, forcing them to adapt, and possibly travel, to maximize available resources.
"As people depleted food in and around a given dry season waterhole, they were likely forced to move to new waterholes,""Seasonal rivers thus functioned as 'pumps' that siphoned populations out along the channels from one waterhole to another, potentially driving the most recent out-of-Africa dispersal."The 'green corridor' theory proposes that, as food resources expanded and became bountiful, humans expanded with them. Kappelman and his colleagues sought to investigate an alternative driving force behind the most recent, and most widespread, migration, which occurred sometime less than 100,000 years ago.archaeological site in what is now northwestern Ethiopia, investigating how the people there live
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