Article: African finds revise cultural roots. (archeological evidence indicates that modern culture arose in Africa 90,000 years ago rather than in Europe 35,000 years ago)(Brief Article)

New evidence indicates that people living in Africa 90,000 years ago carved barbed bone points to spear fish and even organized annual fishing expeditions. This discovery challenges the widely accepted theory that the complex thinking and behavior necessary for major cultural changes arose in Europe no earlier than 35,000 years ago.

"What's exciting is that we're seeing strategic planning for subsistence by people who lived so long ago," says Alison S. Brooks, an archaeologist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. "Humans in Africa invented sophisticated [tool] technologies long before their European counterparts, who have often been credited with ...

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