Ancient continents, where the oldest people lived

The ancient continents, on which the first people lived, are still of interest to scientists. Constantly there are new theories and extraordinary versions about where the first Adam and Eve lived. We will try to analyze the scientific points of view.

We solve the school crossword, or the Common scientific version

In school crosswords on history and in various tests, the question is: "The mainland, where, according to the scientists, the oldest people lived." The right answer to it is Africa. Note that this is not a postulate, but only a theory. It is no accident that in the tests the phrase "according to the assumptions of scientists". What is the basis of the theory? Were there other ancient continents that may have been the ancestral home of mankind? Further we will try to answer these questions.

Africa - the common ancestral homeland of man

Africa is the mainland, where ancient people lived . This statement was put forward in 1871 by Charles Darwin. Then his version was not heard, since there were no serious confirmations to this. Now scientists have a lot of evidence that point to this continent.

DNA research is the key to unraveling?

Scientists have presented extensive DNA research, according to which, Africa can be considered the starting point for the resettlement of people.

The DNA code is an amazing thing. On it it is possible not only to learn the biological father, mother, brother, but also all relatives on the Earth. DNA in all races is similar to 99.9%, and only the remaining small percentage affects the appearance, hereditary diseases, etc.

This unique code contains the trace of the whole history of mankind: the more the percentage of similarity of one race with another, the later they separated from each other.

DNA research has shown that Africa is a continent where, according to scientists, ancient people lived. According to statements of representatives of the University of California, who studied the unique code of inhabitants of all continents, 150,000 years ago the ancestors of the first chromosomes lived on the border of present-day South Africa and Namibia.

Settlement of ancient people

Migration from Africa began about 50-70 thousand years ago. From here people went to Asia, and then through India to Europe and America.

The resettlement did not pass as quickly as it seems. For one generation, people traveled a few kilometers. The forty-year trek with the overcoming of several hundred kilometers of Moses and the Israelis 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. Before Australia, people reached about 5-10 thousand years.

Of course, the time variation is very large, but it is impossible to determine more precisely because of the limited information. To make it more clear, this is not enough or a lot, let's say that the period of the history of mankind totals about 5 thousand years from the moment of writing. Only from the Nativity of Christ to this day has passed just over 2 thousand years, which by the standards of human society is very little.

Archaeologists also believe that Africa is the mainland of the oldest people, since it was here, in the Olduvai cave, that they found the remains of "homo habilis" and "homo erectus", that is, the Man of Skilful 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 generates various theories and versions of scientists and amateurs studying ancient continents, about where the ancestral home of all mankind is. Among the possible options are the following:

• China - archaeologists have discovered there remains of "Sinanthropus", presumably of the same age as the African Homo habilis.

• Altai, Russia - there are also ancient remains of people. The most famous archaeological monument is the Denisova Cave.
• Several places at the same time.
• The island of Java in Asia.

How did people get to America and Australia?

Scientists, amateurs, as well as many skeptics who study the ancient continents, come to the conclusion that there was a single continent that later was divided under the influence of various factors. However, official science denies this. Indeed, the once united continent may have existed. Judging by the maps, many territories separated by water are like broken parts of a single whole.

However, according to geologists, the division of the continent occurred much earlier than the appearance and settlement of our distant ancestors.

If the question, as the ancient continent was called, the answer is Africa, then how did people get to America and Australia?

In fact, there is nothing inexplicable in this - 30 thousand years ago, North-East Eurasia and North America were a single continent. In place of the Bering Strait, there was a "bridge" through which people reached this continent. From there they penetrated into South America, which is not divided by large water barriers with North America. As for Australia, it's about the same. Through the island network of Southeast Asia you can get to this continent. Let us repeat that there were no fast movements - several kilometers were overcome in about 100 years.

Chitida - the birthplace of humanity?

There are several pseudoscientific myths and legends according to which, the ancient continent, on which the first people appeared, was not Africa. According to one of them, such a continent is Chitida - a sunken continent in the Indian Ocean in the middle between Asia, Australia and America. It was opened by Colonel Bengal Cavalry Corps of Cherchuord in 1870. While in India, he camped near Buddhist monks who turned out to be hospitable people and allowed them to spend the night with themselves. They asked the colonel 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. Cherchuordu succeeded, and it turned out that they contain information about the most ancient people, the ancestors of all mankind on the continent of Chitida, which was slightly larger than modern Australia.

Its inhabitants had different skin color, possessed abilities that are inaccessible to descendants: the gift of clairvoyance, telepathy, levitation. We were able to use the energy of the sun and crystals.

Civilization Khitida existed for more than 4,500 years and was destroyed as a result of a collision of the Earth with an asteroid. This catastrophe broke up the mainland into several islands: Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Hindustan, Hawaii, the islands of the Indian Ocean.

"The sensational" find of the colonel was unnoticed in the press. This news was considered a newspaper duck and was not interested in it properly.

The refutation of the theory

The theory of Chitida, as well as others similar to it, is refuted by modern science:

1. The data of oceanography do not contain information that there are flooded continents on the bottom.
2. If some islands are part of the Chitida, why do they contain no information about it?
3. Science does not present any evidence on the basis of which such "sensational discoveries" are made.

Similar theories are pseudoscience, which has nothing to do with real scientific knowledge. There are many such "discoveries" and versions, they arise from the lack of proof of the basic theory of the emergence of the first Adam and Eve.

conclusions

What ancient continent is considered the ancestral home of man? A long time to this question there will be a variety of points of view. However, the version with DNA seems to be the most convincing, since it is based not on ancient remains of people that can not be found, not radiocarbon measurements, the technique of which is constantly changing, but the mathematical calculation of the unique human code. It can not be faked and changed. Therefore, Africa is the mainland, on which the most ancient people appeared. Only this opinion to date is supported by evidence.