Tag #Rainforest

How do the new dating techniques and pollen analysis contribute to the understanding of the environmental context and the timeline of human presence in the Ivorian rainforest site?

The discovery of 150,000-year-old stone tools in a Côte d'Ivoire rainforest significantly alters our understanding of early Homo sapiens dispersal. Evidence suggests continuous human presence in the area for 100,000 years, contradicting the previously accepted narrative of rainforest areas acting as barriers to early human expansion. This finding supports a pan-African origin theory.