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The Geographical Distribution of Ancestral Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Arthur Smith Woodward
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The latest studies of fossil Mammals appear to show that the Upper Pliocene and Pleistocene mammalian faunas of Europe were chiefly immigrants from the Asiatic region (35). The corresponding faunas of Africa seem to have been derived chiefly from the same source (28, 35). The distribution of the stone implements of Palaeolithic Man also can be best explained by supposing that the successive human races who made them started in Asia, and migrated westwards in two divergent streams to Europe and Africa respectively (6). Until the latest phase of the Pleistocene, there cannot have been any direct communication between the men of northern Africa and those of southern Europe. Man, indeed, like the other mammals seems to have originated in the Asiatic region.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 81 , Issue 2 , April 1944 , pp. 49 - 57
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