Posted by:
SL Cabbie
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Date: June 08, 2017 11:04AM
He also liked head cheese. No thanks...
Five hundred thousand years on Neanderthals?
Right...
(yeah, that one gets the "S tag")
Never mind the extreme dates for Neanderthal's presence, the presumed admixture took place outside of Africa because Neanderthal DNA sequences haven't been found in Africa.
Wiki will do for now on "Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminescence_dating>"Most luminescence dating methods rely on the assumption that the mineral grains were sufficiently "bleached" at the time of the event being dated."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optically_stimulated_luminescence>Recent OSL dating of stone tools in Arabia pushed the "out-of-Africa" date hypothesis of human migration back 50,000 years and added a possible path of migration from the African continent to the Arabian peninsula instead of through Europe.
Note the "weasel wording" using "hypothesis" instead of theory. The African ancestry of humans long ago reached the tipping point where it should be considered a theory rather than a hypothesis.