Guy Gugliotta's The Great Human Migration

1. One example of non-historical evidence for human migration out of Africa, provided in Guy Gugliotta’s, “The Great Human Migration” is the fossilized remains of shellfish such as, barnacles, mussels, periwinkles, and other mollusks, which imply that these humans were using the sea as a major supply of food needed for their survival . Since, some early modern humans in Africa, were located in Blombos they had a vast supply of water near them, which contained their major food supply of shellfish. 2. One possible cause of the great migration is droughts in Africa which threatened these modern humans extinction. Since, they consumed shellfish, they need to be near a body of water to obtain their food supply. The droughts may have dried