Life lessons from Africa Trip

So what I learned on my recent journey to Africa to discover my family roots is that the ancestry.com DNA test does not go back far enough to get to our African beginnings. The 23andMe DNA test does!! So the revised version of the Melton family history and all modern human history is that we likely came from Ethiopia in East Africa( though there is the new Lee Berger theory that it was South Africa first and we walked up to East Africa and crossed the most narrow part of the Red Sea into Saudi Arabia.) At any rate, it is also known that the "tribe" we were all a part of back 70,000 years ago that left Africa was similar to the tribe of today's San People, who until just recently have remained hunter gatherers in Africa. The theory is, based on genetic evidence, that the San are the oldest people group in Africa and that they stayed when we left!! I learned all this at the San People exhibit in the Origins Center Museum on the campus of Wits University in Johannesburg South Africa. So if you want to know what your oldest ancestors may have looked like, behaved and lived then check out the San.