October 18th, 2016
Humanities Essay Writing
Mr. Josh Smiles
The First Human Migration Have you ever thought of having to build tends by hand with nature’s resources in hand. Or even having to travel great distances by feet or a raft everyday? According to the genetic and paleontological record, we only started to leave Africa between 60,000 and 70,000 years ago. Evidence shows sea levels were probably low enough for the first people to cross from the horn of Africa into Arabia via the Red Sea's Bab-el-Mandeb straits. From there it seems that southern Asian countries like India were key stopping points from where humans spread across the rest of the world. The extensive arid environments of northern Africa and the Middle