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OUR earliest ancestors gave up hunting-gathering and took to a settled life up to 400,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to controversial research. The accepted time scale of humans' evolution is being challenged by an archeologist who claims to have found evidence that Homo erectus - mankind's early ancestor, who migrated from Africa to Asia and Europe - began living in settled communities long before the accepted time of 10,000 years ago. The point at which settlement took place is the first critical stage in humanity's cultural development. Helmut Ziegert, of the Institute of Archeology at Hamburg University, said evidence could be found at excavated sites in north and east Africa, in the remains of stone huts and tools created by upright man for fishing and butchery. Professor Ziegert claimed the thousands of blades, scrapers, hand axes and other tools found at sites such as Budrinna, on the shore of an extinct lake in southwest Libya, and at M...