I've been doing some reading on Aterian tools lately, and I found something that interested me:

Some studies of comparative skeletal morphology have suggested that these people exist on the same morphological continuum as the Jebel Irhoud specimens, currently thought to date to 160,000 years ago. The 'Aterian' fossils also display similarities to the earliest modern humans found out of Africa at Skhul and Qafzeh in the Levant, and they are broadly contemporary to them.

So what does this mean? Did Moroccan Aterian tool users belong to the same ethnic group (or a sister group) as the one that the first modern humans out of Africa belonged to? During this period, when humans first migrated out of Africa, what kind of tools were they using? Did they resemble Aterian tools or were they something else entirely?