The single common ancestor theory is all that you hear now. Did these groups (minus homosapiens) appear around the same time? Or do they follow the pattern of increased complexity over time? Were there ever advanced societies within those groups before intermingling, as described in myths/stories like Lemuria or Hyperborea?
So, there are several theories about that. The "first wave" out of Africa is the most popular. Thays what academic studies are based on.
Graecopithicus really fucks up that theory. So do many other "anomoly" finds. There really is no consensus. If you'd like my opinion I will gladly share.
I believe the origins of the modern human are much older than we understand, because I believe it started in the Mediterranean basin. There were other primates who were isolated and adapted in many parts of the world into unique and possibly fairly advanced species. The stories of giants and dwarves and such are probably based on these very ancient species who eventually died out because the environments they had adapted to changed. But us, as we understand, started 6 to 12 million users ago in the Mediterranean basin when the Gibraltar passage was blocked by a land plug.
The Mediterranean basin would have been a garden of eden. Below sea level so protected from crazy natural disasters and inclement weather, fertile, lush, and secure. A perfect environment for a species to develop. When the lad plug caved in and the Atlantic flooded the basin 5 million years ago, only stragglers and small isolated pockets of that protohuman survived, the ones who lived near the edge. They were dispersed through southern Europe, northern Africa, and the Levant. These isolated pockets began growing and developing and responding to their unique environmental pressures, slowly changing over time. That is my hypothesis.
If you'd like my opinion I will gladly share.
Yes, the subject is fascinating but who is there to discuss it with?
6-12 million years ago in the Mediterranean basin
I agree that there's evidence of a people with common ancestors living on the western coasts of Europe and Africa, their homeland was likely somewhere to the West. But I get tripped up on the timelines and sorting through disinformation, especially when you factor in the Americas.
We have stone and giant earthwork builders in the British Isles, Canary Islands and elsewhere. But they're also all across the US. The Cahokia mounds in IL are the largest but those mounds extend down into FL. TPTB call them "midden mounds" in the south and say they were just old trash piles but some of the mounds are massive and oriented towards the water, there's an elipses near Cedar Key that's the size of a football field and almost 20 feet tall.
Clovis points are found all over the US but also in France from ~17,000 years ago (they say). Then there's the curious case of the Windover mummies, also in FL who were supposedly blonde, 7-10k years old, and placed in such a way as to all face east (towards Atlantic).
I suspect there was a landmass for these people's shared ancestor somewhere in or near the Atlantic that had a cataclysm, the seafaring people escaped and travelled outwardly in a ring and brought their stone and earthwork traditions with them. As their culture was lost to time, the technologies were also lost in the case if the Americas or further developed as seen in Europe/ME/North Africa
Plato described the landmass as told to him by the Egyptian elites, but that doesn't give us a good timeline. Rudolph Steiner also wrote about it but he was a theosophist and received his information from trance and the likes of other occultists and the mind is easily deceived.
The solutrean crossover hypothesis says those peoples followed the glacial coast during the ice age and came from Europe Over to North America. Which is absolutely possible.
The ice age is a whole other story. Think about this. EVERY civilization had a world flood event myth. Atlantis mu lemuria etc. Does it make more sense that they were secret landmass that suddenly disappeared with no trace in the middle of an ocean? Or does it make more sense that at a glacial maximum, look at our coastlines. Where would they be? 100 miles or more out.
Humans live on water. It provides transport, resources, food, protection, etc. We LIVE ON THE COASTS! We love the beach! So these civilizations would develop and thrive on the coasts. Then when the ice age starts to recede every major coastal civilization would be fucked. They would run back to higher ground, lose their grand civilizations, lose a lot of knowledge and technology as they try to survive and rebuild, and would keep their stories.
SO MANY CULTURES ALL ACROSS THE WORLD have a diaspora story. They ALWAYS originated from some "other place". Thats because they did. The world looked very different 20k years ago. There were entire country sized places that are now covered in 400feet of water. If we invested the time and technology to study these areas our entire concept of human evolution and prehistory would change.
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