New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages

Re:New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages by cco on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:49PM (#36933145)

> At this point the 3 oldest fossils we have that look like homo sapiens are all from Morocco or the Levant or Greece, suggesting homo sapiens first evolved near the Mediterranean.

This is fascinating and new to me, can you provide any articles or podcasts that discuss it?

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Re:New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages by username135 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:39PM (#36933784)

Seconded

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Re:New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages by lkrubner on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:04PM (#36935351)

I've been meaning to write this up in one place, and maybe this week would be a good time to do so.

I thought the news from Morocco was now well known, see here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22114

Homo sapiens and some other form of human were living in the Levant 200,000 years ago:

https://www.earth.com/news/new-type-of-prehistoric-human-fou...

The reference to the skulls found on an island Greece, I'll need time to track that one down.

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Re:New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages by cco on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:21AM (#36939071)

Fascinating, I was able to find some references to Greece around 200kya, but not much around the Levant.

Very neat, turns a lot of previous evidence on its head.

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