Scientists: Homo sapiens were in SE Asia earlier than thought

Homo sapiens had reached Southeast Asia almost 20,000 years earlier than previously thought. CDNDigital

‘OUR ANCESTORS’ Filipino geoarchaeologist Vito Hernandez and fellow researchers at Tam Pa Ling cave, northeastern Laos, where they found bone fragments of Homo sapiens. —PHOTOS BY KIRA WESTAWAY/MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY AND NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.That research finding challenges current textbook assumptions about early human migration and should provide a wider understanding of the origins of our species.

He said most fossils of prehistoric humans were found in islands like those of the Philippines and Indonesia—citing fossils of Homo luzonensis and of Homo floresiensis. “Now these findings prove that our ancestors also moved through valleys and forests aside from islands and coasts,” Hernandez said.

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