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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by skeleton

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corporation sometimes we steal bones from their arms but they don't find it [Skeletons wearing sombreros]

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very humorous... okay here's our question most archaeologists believe that the

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earliest humans lived in what? here are our potential answers...

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archaeologists love getting their hands on ancient stuff, human fossils are [Person digging]

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nightmare material for some folks but they're what dreams are made of for your

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average archaeologist let's dig into our answers starting with A and C well

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studies of fossils and climate reconstruction suggests that North

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Africa was more hospitable than archaeologists originally thought the [A smiley face and welcome home sign on North Africa]

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Sahara Desert spans almost the entirety of North Africa and a little into West

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Africa about 130,000 years ago that whole area was apparently jam-packed

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with lakes and rivers and was probably way easier to have a cool party back then.[People having a pool party in the Sahara Desert]

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However there's little evidence showing that anyone actually lived there that

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long ago let alone partied and if they did archaeologists have yet to dig up [Archaeologist digging in North Africa]

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any ancient disco balls.. For now we can put A and C to rest well how about B, do

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archaeologists believe that the earliest humans lived in East Africa the Omo

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remains were discovered between 1967 and 1974 in East Africa these remains were [Man holding human remains]

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dated to be approximately a hundred ninety-five thousand years old these

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fossils are seriously old...So it looks like B is still in the game let's take a

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look at D well unfortunately South Africa was unable to go the distance, the

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earliest indications of modern humans in South Africa only date back as far as a [Clock ticking forward rapidly]

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hundred fifteen thousand years ago so D falls short to B by a solid eighty

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thousand years or so that means that answer B is correct but the beauty of [Archaeologist holding an ancient disco ball]

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archaeology is that a new archaeological find could change everything we thought we

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knew about our past at any moment only a matter of time before we find that two

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hundred fifty thousand year old disco ball [Man and woman dressed as cavemen dancing at a disco]

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