afican contribution to civilli

Secondly it was Africa that the main branch which was to end up as man broke away from his primitive apes and this took place in the late Miocene period or early Pliocene period about twelve to fourteen million years ago. Thirdly and during the east African Pleistocene period, "true man" separated from his man like and now extinct cousins, the Australopithecine's or "near man" of some two million years ago [Leaky 1967].
             Other evidence proving our African origin comes from Herodutus, an ancient Greek historian, of whom we draw substantial amount of our historical information from, he also wrote of his theory about civilisation coming from Africa as he saw the evidence first hand when travelling through Egypt around 450 BC. More conclusive and scientific evidence comes from carbon-14 dating. This is the technique used to map when all the living things die. Due to the fact that all living things contain carbon. When the living thing dies it stops absorbing carbon, and since carbon loses its radio activity at a constant rate we can see when something has died by the activity of the carbon found in the bone or any remains of this being. This is only an approximation but it has proved to be extremely reliable. So in recovering past civilisations and primitive man it has been conclusively shown that Africa has by far the oldest remains. In fact the spread of mankind can be mapped throughout the world through millennia using this process so we can see almost certain evidence that Africa was the birthplace of the human race. .
             Africa however was not only our place of origin but it was also the place where we were going to realise our full potential. Our evolution continued down the millennia and centuries, allowing the early "men" to learn how to use and develop tools, to exploit the land and the animals, with such success that it enabled growth of civilisation of the highest potential. These technical advances started off "snail slow" but they did continue.