Response to Comment on "The earliest modern humans outside Africa".

Hershkovitz, Israel; Duval, Mathieu; Grün, Rainer; Mercier, Norbert; Valladas, Helene; Ayalon, Avner; Bar-Matthews, Miryam; Weber, Gerhard W et al. · Science · 2018

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Abstract

Our original claim, based on three independent numerical dating methods, of an age of ~185,000 years for the Misliya-1 modern human hemi-maxilla from Mount Carmel, Israel, is little affected by discounting uranium-series dating of adhering crusts. It confirms a much earlier out-of-Africa <i>Homo sapiens</i> expansion than previously suggested by the considerably younger (90,000 to 120,000 years) Skhul/Qafzeh hominins.

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