A new study may cast doubt over whether humankind originated in South Africa.
Rock deposits in a cave system inhabited by early human ancestors in South Africa may be almost 2 million years younger than previously thought, a new study has found, which may cast doubt over whether humankind may have originated in the country.
That compared with earlier research, which dated deposits in a small cave called Waypoint 160 at Bolt’s Farm at about 4.5 million years, South Africa’s University of Cape Town said in an emailed statement on Wednesday. According to the statement, the earlier research that dated Waypoint 160 deposits relied on fossilized remains of the rat and compared it to other fossil sites in South Africa.
“All of our work using multidisciplinary sources over the last few years show no evidence for any sites in the Cradle older than 3.2 million years ago,” said Tara Edwards, a Human Evolution Research Institute postdoctoral research fellow from the university’s Department of Geological Sciences and lead author of the paper published in Science Direct.
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