New study refutes claims of early humans in India prior to Mount Toba eruption
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 06:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org) —A team of British researchers has published a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences refuting claims made by a research team in 2007 suggesting that humans migrated to India as early as 75,000 years ago. In their paper, they say mtDNA and new archeological evidence indicates that modern humans arrived in India approximately 50 to 55 thousand years ago.