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| oldest hominid fossil (sahelanthropus tchadensis) ab 7-7.2 million years bp |
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| most northeasterly known location of occupation by Homo erectus; hence, "Peking Man" |
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| most southesterly known location of occupation by Homo erectus; hence "java Man" |
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| sporadic marine migration to the new world ab 10,000 years bp. Australoid and mongoloid genetic markers are represented among polynesians and among small numbers of isolated groups of people in the upper Orinoco Basin of VENEZUELA |
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Primary entry of Native Americans into the new world ab 15,000 years bp during latter stages of the last Ice Age. This length of time allowed Old World evolution of livestock-originating human pathogens to which New World people had no chance to evolve immunities.
Both Mongoloid and Caucasoid genetic markers are represented, although caucasoid markers are few. |
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| Rejoining of Old World and New World populations of Homo Sapiens v. sapiens about 500 years bp with New World populations succumbing widely and rapidly to "new" pathogens from Old World. |
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| Pottery dated to ab 2000 years bp on the bottom of Guanabara Bay into Rio de Janeiro indicated seafaring traders, probably Phoenicians from what today is Lebanon. |
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