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https://phys.org/news/2019-07-oldest-africa-reset-human-migration.html
Now it is thought that humans were replaced by Neanderthals in Europe only to replace them again. It’s not a neat dispersal but multiple and continuous dispersals out of Africa.A 210,000-year-old skull has been identified as the earliest modern human remains found outside Africa, putting the clock back on mankind's arrival in Europe by more than 150,000 years, researchers said Wednesday.
In a startling discovery that changes our understanding of how modern man populated Eurasia, the findings support the idea that Homo sapiens made several, sometimes unsuccessful migrations from Africa over tens of thousands of years.
Southeast Europe has long been considered a major transport corridor for modern humans from Africa. But until now the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens on the continent dated back only around 50,000 years.