Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Italians were First Europeans, not Spaniards

The ANNOTICO Report

 

It was previously thought that the first Europeans were from Spain, about 600.000 years ago.

 

Now it is announced at a major prehistoric science conference in Lisbon, that the FIRST Europeans were from the Puglia region of Italy, more than 1.7 million years ago!!!!!

 

That also means  that Europe was populated from a migration from the Mid East, rather than Northwest Africa, not that it makes any difference because both were Arabic origins. 

 

 

FIRST EUROPEANS LIVED IN ITALY

 

 Italian scientists date Puglia finds to 1.7 mn years ago

 

ANSA - Rome,

November 7, 2006 

 

The first Europeans lived in southern Italy and not Spain, according to new Italian findings .

A collection of fossilised flint tools and other sharp instruments found in the south-eastern region of Puglia has recently been dated to some 1.7 million years ago - predating the oldest Spanish finds by almost a million years .

The discovery was announced at a major prehistoric science conference in Lisbon .

The evidence means palaeontologists will have to redraw the maps charting the path of ancient man out of Africa, say a team from four Italian universities, Rome, Turin, Florence and Ferrara .

"This discovery reopens the debate on the origin of the population of the whole of Europe," said Carmelo Petronio of Rome's La Sapienza University .

"It supports the theory that the first Europeans migrated westwards across the Near East and not from north-western Africa" .

Petronio said a precursor of modern man calle d! Homo ergaster "headed (from Africa) for Asia where it continued to evolve, becoming Homo erectus" .

"But one group traveled to the Caucasus, before it evolved, and probably continued to migrate from there as far as southern Italy" .

The tools found in Puglia were dated by comparing them to the remains of 43 mammals unearthed near them, including sabre-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths .

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