The Journey Of (Modern) Man
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A nice website which presented an animated flow showing the migration of "modern" man..
From 150,000 years ago until 8,000 years ago.. or the time when (some) human initially adapted "Agriculture"..http//www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/
http//www.3sigma.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Journey-of-Mankind1.jpg
It's derived from fossil findings and DNA/Genetical tracing of human living today and the found fossils..
Some of the things which I find interesting- Gigantic explosion of Mt Toba around 74,000 years ago, which caused massive extinction of living beings, including human.
- Post-Toba explosion of human migration from east to west.. (which inline with the evolution of languages from Proto Indo-European to many western / middle eastern languages)
- Multiple wave of migration to American continent/
The animation was created in 2003, since then we have discovered additional facts such as
- Neanderthal and Modern Human 'cross breeding' which happened at least until 40,000 years ago..
This additional fact inline with the post-toba east - west migration of modern human. They (re) reached middle east/levant and europe around 45-40,000 years ago.... the native homeland of Neanderthal..
The animation above doesn't show any mass migration which happened in the last 8000 years.. which includes but not limited to
- Massive human migration from Europe and Africa to American continent
- Massive human migration from Europe to Australia
- Massive human migration from Northern Central Asia to Middle East and Europe (Turkic/Mongolian invasion)