ABSTRACT
Unsuccessful Colonization Imperceptibly, in small numbers and widely dispersed over inhospitable terrain, anatomically modern humans (AMH) expanded out of their tropical African homeland. These were people who were used to maintaining connections with others, often living some distance away. They ranged over long distances in search of game and plant foods. As we saw in Chapter 4, there is some support for a movement of AMH out of Africa into Asia about 83,000 years ago, although the date is tentative at best. But there are signs of an earlier movement as well, which took place about 100,000 years ago, when handfuls of modern people moved into Southwest Asia, perhaps from Northeast Africa and the Nile Valley. Unlike the Asian out-migration, this one was to fail.
