The presence of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans in Europe and western Asia is causing a problem for mainstream thinking as the date of arrival in Australia of the Aborigines has been set by archaeologists, at least as early as 65,000 years ago – and possibly even earlier than that. See https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/neanderthal-dna-may-refute-65-000-year-old-date-for-human-occupation-in-australia-but-not-all-experts-are-convinced … In contrast, a new study relies for its main thrust of dating their arrival, on the DNA evidence above, has created a model that shows it is impossible that Aboriginals could have reached the Australian continent before 50,000 years ago. Even that date is awry as the Laschamp event occurred around 42,000 years ago and represents the furthest back any C14 derived date can go. Modern humans dated prior to 42,000 years ago – sometimes as early as 50,000 years ago, are mostly old C14 dates that have never been redone. When you look at it like that it would seem incredible to think in terms of Aboriginals only arriving around 40,000 years ago – after traversing Arabia, India, and SE Asia, let along Indonesia, to get there – and not leaving a trace of their journey on the way. This is the nub of the Out of Africa paradigm. How does it keep its hold over mainstream? Politics should not influence archaeology – but I suppose it always has. It seems that by ignoring Laschamp and what happened then mainstream can maintain the idea of all people descending from a small group that left Africa 50,000 years ago. There is no reason why people were not living in Australia a 100,000 years ago. We just don’t know. The evidence will eventually out as the submerged parts of Sundaland will show when a route was open. Not only that – do Aboriginals have Neanderthal genes? Or do they have Denisovan ancestry? They are akin to the people of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, etc.
At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/neanderthals-denisovans-look-like-today/ …. Neanderthals share a genetic ancestry. Or, at least, they interbred with each other. Do any of their traits survive amongst modern people walking around in suits and ties?
At https://phys.org/news/2025-07-evidence-neanderthals-fat-years-early.html … hunter gatherers had a high calorie diet, we are told. Lots of protein, carbohydrates [from plants], and fat. A study in Science Advances puts forward evidence that Neanderthals were rendering fat around 125,000 years ago – in what is now Germany. A sophisticated way of processing food, it would seem. Not the sort of thing to associate with grunts.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-06-carbon-reveals-evidence-extensive-human.html … the carbon record reveals extensive evidence humans were using fire around 50,000 years ago. It looks like we are back to the Laschamp Event – again. Is this evidence of landscape fires rather than human camp fires? Basically, the pyrogenic carbon record is a 300,000 year old sediment core from the East China Sea. Is this really evidence of human activity? If Laschamp was anything like the Younger Dryas event it could have involved landscape fire. We also have evidence of fire at the same time from Europe, SE Asia, and Papua New Guinea. This spike in fire is said to coincide with an increasing human population worldwide. Well, that can easily be refuted as the Laschamp Event coincided with a crash in human numbers – and the disappearance of Neanderthals and Denisovans. There was also a mass die off of animals at the same point in time. Quite the opposite of what is being asserted in this study. Of course, catastrophism is not allowed in mainstream so this will be ignored.
note … the use of 50,000 years ago rather than 42,000 or 45,000 years ago [C14 date or Bayesian date] is of course directly linked to the idea of Out of Africa 50,000 years ago.