2006-10-07

Posted by Picasa Human Migrations
VIDEO SEGMENT: Out of Africa
Where and how did human migration begin? This segment explores the scientific, archaeological, and linguistic evidence scholars have used to answer this question.
Most scholars now agree that evidence overwhelmingly points to the African origins of humanity. All of the oldest human fossils have been found in Africa, and genetic studies of our own species (Homo sapiens) have shown that modern peoples all over the world are genetically related to modern Africans. Archaeological findings have shown that Homo sapiens began moving out of Africa into Eurasia between 70,000 and 140,000 years ago, probably because of environmental changes brought about during an Ice Age. ( more...)

Peopling the Pacific and the Americas
VIDEO SEGMENT: Units of Analysis
Once Homo sapiens began to migrate out of Africa approximately 100,000 years ago, they spread out across nearly every type of natural environment and eventually populated every habitable area of the world. This segment traces the peopling of the Pacific and the Americas, using a combination of scientific, linguistic, and oral clues. (more...)

Human Migrations
VIDEO SEGMENT: Linguistic Clues: Bantu Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa
The study of language can offer important clues about the historic migration of peoples around the world. Some distinctive linguistic features, such as click sounds, can reveal patterns of movement if they are found in geographically distant populations. Also, similar words in different languages can demonstrate common origins. (more...)

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Additional links:
Human migration From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paleoanthropology from http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/Paleoanthropology.html

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