Huh? The academic community has been clear on that for decades now. The problem is the oversimplification taught in schools, which is often decades behind the c

Huh? The academic community has been clear on that for decades now. The problem is the oversimplification taught in schools, which is often decades behind the cutting edge science. See the timeline on the archaic humans wiki page [1]. The first migration out of Africa and the first use of fire were all millions of years ago. The first stone tools made by Australopithecus predate archaic humans altogether. It really just depends on where you draw the "human" and "civilization" lines. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans