Scientists find possible artefacts of ‘oldest known hominids' in Indonesia
Archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found the small, chipped tools, used to cut small animals and carve rocks, under soil in the region of Soppeng in South Sulawesi. Radioactive tracing of the tools and the teeth of animals found around the site were dated at up to 1.48-million years ago.
The findings could transform theories about early human migrations, according to an article the archaeologists published in the journal Nature in August.
The earliest Wallacean humans, pre-historic persons known as Homo Erectus , were thought to have only settled in Indonesia's Flores island and Philippines' Luzon island around 1.02-million years ago, as they were thought to be incapable of distant sea travel, proving the significance of the Sulawesi findings in theories of migration.
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