Via Catholicgauze, here’s a neat time lapse application that shows a depiction of mankind’s dispersal across the globe from about 150k years ago, from a central origin point in Africa. As with most things archeological, you need to take this as a theory, not fact, but it’s interesting never the less. It includes the time periods that the migrations are thought to have occurred.
Now this doesn’t take into account other theories, like some south Pacific peoples possibly traveling across the ocean to South America, or some European and African peoples doing the same. It also doesn’t capture smaller migrations back and forth on a regional level.
One thing to note, if you hold faith in the Bible as accurate history, is the location of the “origin” and the time periods they’re talking about. I’ve always said that I wouldn’t totally rule out a more literal depiction of the timeline proposed by some that Adam walked the earth only 6000 years ago. However, I’m also into the thought that there’s a disconnect between generations in the book of Genesis, and that it’s possible that God created man at a much earlier time, say hundreds of thousands of years ago. This wouldn’t contradict what archeologists think about human migration necessarily.
Anyway, enjoy the animated journey of man as estimated by the Bradshaw Foundation.
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