Ancient continents, where the first people lived, are still of interest to scientists. New theories and extraordinary versions are constantly emerging about where the first Adam and Eve lived. We will try to analyze scientific points of view.
Solving the school crossword, or the Common Scientific Version
In school history crosswords and in various tests, the question is found: "The mainland, where, according to scientists, the most ancient people lived." Africa is the correct answer. Note that this is not a postulate, but only a theory. It is no coincidence that in the tests the phrase "according to the assumptions of scientists." What is the theory based on? Were there other ancient continents that might have been the ancestral home of humanity? Next, we will try to answer these questions.
Africa is the generally accepted ancestral home of human ancestors
Africa is the mainland where ancient people lived. This statement was made in 1871 by Charles Darwin.
Then his version was not heard, as there was no serious confirmation of this. Now scientists have a lot of evidence that points to this particular continent.
DNA research is the key toclue?
Scientists have presented extensive DNA studies, according to which Africa can be recognized as the starting point of human settlement.
DNA code is an amazing thing. By it you can not only recognize the biological father, mother, brother, but also all relatives on Earth. The DNA of all races is 99.9% similar, and only the remaining small percentage affects appearance, hereditary diseases, etc.
This unique code contains a trace of the entire history of mankind: the greater the percentage of similarity of one race with another, the later they separated from each other.
DNA studies have shown that Africa is the continent where, according to scientists, the most ancient people lived. According to representatives of the University of California, who studied the unique code of the inhabitants of all continents, 150 thousand years ago, the progenitors of the first chromosomes lived on the border of modern South Africa and Namibia.
The settlement of ancient people
Migration from Africa began about 50-70 thousand years ago. From here people went to Asia, and further through India to Europe and America.
Resettlement was not as fast as it seems. In one generation, people made a journey of several kilometers. Moses' forty-year campaign with overcoming several hundred kilometers with the Israelites along the Sinai seems like a sprint race against this background. Due to the presence of different climatic conditions, the distinctive features of the races were formed. People reached Australia in about 5-10 thousand years.
Time spread,of course, it is very large, but it is impossible to determine precisely due to limited information. To make it more clear whether this is a little or a lot, let's say that the period of human history has approximately 5 thousand years since the advent of writing. Just over 2,000 years have passed from the birth of Christ to today, which is quite a bit by the standards of human society.
Archaeologists also believe that Africa is the continent of the most ancient people, since it was here, in the Olduvai cave, that they found the remains of "homo habiles" and "homo erectus", that is, Homo habilis and Homo erectus.
Of course, this is just a theory, which, with all the development of science and technology, has not been given the status of proven.
Different versions of the ancestral home of mankind
This gives rise to various theories and versions of scientists and amateurs studying ancient continents about where the ancestral home of all mankind is located. Among the possible options are the following:
China - archaeologists have discovered there the remains of the "Sinanthropus", presumably the same age as the African Homo habilis
- Altai, Russia - There are also ancient human remains. The most famous archaeological site is Denisova Cave.
- Several places at the same time.
- Java Island in Asia.
How did people get to America and Australia?
Scientists, amateurs, and many skeptics who studyancient continents, come to the conclusion that there was a single continent, which subsequently divided under the influence of various factors. However, official science denies this. Indeed, the once unified continent may have existed. Judging by the maps, many territories separated by water look like broken parts of a single whole.
However, according to geologists, the division of the mainland occurred much earlier than the appearance and settlement of our distant ancestors.
If the answer to the question, what was the name of the ancient continent, is Africa, then how did people get to America and Australia?
In fact, there is nothing inexplicable in this - 30 thousand years ago North-Eastern Eurasia and North America were a single continent. On the site of the Bering Strait, there was a "bridge" through which people reached this continent. From there they penetrated into South America, which is not separated by large water barriers from North America. As for Australia, it's about the same here. Through the island network of Southeast Asia, you can get to this continent. We repeat that there were no fast movements - several kilometers were overcome in about 100 years.
Hitida - the ancestral home of mankind?
There are several near-scientific myths and legends, according to which, the ancient continent on which the first people appeared was not Africa. According to one of them, Hitida is considered such a continent - a sunken mainland in the Indian Ocean in the middle between Asia, Australia and America. It was opened by Colonel Churchward of the Bengal Cavalry Corps in 1870. Being onservice in India, he set up camp near Buddhist monks, who turned out to be hospitable people and allowed the detachment to spend the night with him. The colonel asked them about various stories from the past, as he was interested in science and philosophy. To his surprise, the monks brought him clay pots with texts that no one could decipher. Churchward succeeded, and it turned out that they contain information about the most ancient people, the progenitors of all mankind on the Hitida continent, which was slightly larger than modern Australia.
Its inhabitants had different skin colors, possessed abilities that are inaccessible to descendants: the gift of clairvoyance, telepathy, levitation. They knew how to use the energy of the sun and crystals.
The civilization of Hitida lasted over 4500 years and was destroyed as a result of the collision of the Earth with an asteroid. This catastrophe broke the mainland into several islands: Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Hindustan, Hawaii, the islands of the Indian Ocean.
The Colonel's "sensational" find went unnoticed by the press. This news was considered a newspaper duck and was not properly interested in it.
Refutation of the theory
The Hitida theory, as well as others like it, are refuted by modern science:
- Oceanographic data do not contain information that there are submerged continents at the bottom.
- If some of the islands are part of Hitida, why don't they contain any information about it?
- Science is not presented with any evidence on the basis of which such"sensational discoveries".
Such theories are pseudoscience that has nothing to do with real scientific knowledge. There are many similar "discoveries" and versions, they arise from the lack of proof of the main theory of the emergence of the first Adam and Eve.
Conclusions
Which ancient continent is considered the ancestral home of man? For a long time, there will be a variety of points of view on this issue. However, the version with DNA seems to be the most convincing, since it is based not on the ancient remains of people, which may not be found, not on radiocarbon measurements, the methodology of which is constantly changing, but on the mathematical calculation of a unique human code. It cannot be faked or changed. Therefore, it is Africa that is the continent on which the most ancient people appeared. Only such an opinion has been supported by evidence to date.
