WHEN did modern humans settle in Asia and what route did
they take from mankind’s African homeland?
A University of Huddersfield professor has helped to provide answers to
both questions. But he has also had to
settle a controversy.
Professor Martin Richards (who is pictured [left] with
colleague Dr Martin Carr), who heads the University’s Archaeogenetics Research
Group, co-authors a new article in the journal Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. It refutes a recent theory, that there is
archaeological evidence for the presence of modern humans in southern Asia
before the super-eruption of the Mount Toba volcano in Sumatra.