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Our Human Journey
Oh, the Places We've Been
Suggested Media
Web Resources: Print
• DNA FROM DIRT: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/science/ancient-human-dna-cave-dirt.html?• CALIFORNIA HOMININS: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/science/prehistoric-humans-north-america-california-nature-study.html• CALIFORNIA HOMININS: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/mastodons-americas-peopling-migrations-archaeology-science • OLDEST HOMO SAPIENS: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/science/human-fossils-morocco.html• OLDEST HOMO SAPIENS:http://theconversation.com/modern-humans-evolved-100-000-years-earlier-than-we-thought-and-not-just-in-east-africa-78875• AUSTRALIAN MIGRATION: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a60876432/human-migration-australia/ • ANCIENT HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA: https://www.ancient.eu/article/1070/early-human-migration/• HOMO ERECTUS MIGRATION: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/homo-erectus-our-ancient-ancestor.html • HOMO ERECTUS WAS DOMINANT NEARLY 2 MILLION YEARS AGO: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/17/skull-homo-erectus-human-evolution• NEANDERTHALS: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-and-neanderthals • SAPIENS MIGHT HAVE GONE EXTINCT WITHOUT NEANDERTHALS: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydgyy8120o.amp • IMMUNITY GENES FROM INTERBREEDING WITH NEANDERTHALS: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160107140408.htm• IMMUNITY: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thank-neanderthals-your-immune-system-180957761/• HOMO SAPIENS LEFT AFRICA MUCH EARLIER THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT: https://psmag.com/news/why-and-when-did-early-humans-leave-africa• EARLY HOMO SAPIENS MIGRATIONS: https://www.livescience.com/44988-humans-dispersed-earlier-than-thought.html• EARLY HOMO SAPIENS MIGRATIONS: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-humans-migrated-out-of-africa-several-times-dna-study-suggests-180984824/ • EARLY HUMAN MIGRATIONS:• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations• EARLY HUMAN MIGRATIONS: https://www.ancient.eu/article/1070/early-human-migration/• EARLY HUMAN MIGRATIONS: https://www.the-independent.com/news/science/archaeology/human-species-migration-route-asia-b2646207.html • WHITE SANDS, NM: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/oldest-fossil-human-footprints-in-north-america-are-23000-years-old-study-reaffirms-180983018/ • WHITE SANDS, NM: https://www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/nature/fossilized-footprints.htm • WHITE SANDS, NM: https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/10/05/tests-confirm-humans-tramped-around-north-america-more-than-20-000-years-ago/ • SOLUTREAN HYPOTHESIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis • NORTH AMERICA: THREE THEORIES: https://www.history.com/news/human-migration-americas-beringia • USING BOATS: https://phys.org/news/2012-03-evidence-neanderthals-boats-modern-humans.html#google_vignette • USING BOATS: https://www.science.org/content/article/neandertals-stone-age-people-may-have-voyaged-mediterranean
Web Resources: Video
1. The Human Migration program could include a few video clips; here's a cool "silent" clip that I would narrate that shows how Homo sapiens spread across the planet: http://www.sapiens.org/evolution/early-human-migration/
2. The website www.sapiens.org is a great resource.
3. Here's a wonderful little video from Business Insider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdT6QcSbQ0
4. AMNH and Human Evolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZv8VyIQ7YU
5. Human Migration Overview (12 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmboVmtqNJc
6. Why Europeans and Asians Developed So Differently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGBDShN8F-E
7. Humans in North America (New Mexico Foot Prints): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmboVmtqNJc
8. Hominins in California 130,000 Years Ago?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3Dhdk30mc
9. White Sands, New Mexico, footprints (PBS News Hour): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFk7o6C2kV8
10. An overview of the settlement of America (including post-2020 discoveries): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltH3hYsvVq0&t=654s
Oldest Homo Sapiens (Stay Tuned!)
• EARLIEST HUMANS OVERVIEW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_human#
• SCIENCE MAGAZINE: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/world-s-oldest-homo-sapiens-fossils-found-morocco
• NY TIMES: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/science/human-fossils-morocco.html
• CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/25/africa/inside-africa-morocco-homo-sapiens-fossils/index.html
• SMITHSONIAN OVERVIEW: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-sapiens
Early Hominins Nearly Went Extinct
• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02712-4
• https://www.history.com/news/prehistoric-ancestors-population-decline
• https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/how-human-beings-almost-vanished-from-earth-in-70-000-b-c
• https://io9.gizmodo.com/close-calls-three-times-when-the-human-race-barely-esc-1730998797
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydgyy8120o.amp