The discovery of a skull and shin bone fragment in a cave in Laos pushes back the earliest known date of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia.
Homo sapiens arrived in Southeast Asia as early as 86,000 years ago, a human shin bone fragment found deep within a cave in Laos reveals.
The team did just that, finding two new bones, they reported in a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The bones — fragments of the front of a skull and a shin bone — were likely washed into the Tam Pà Ling cave during a monsoon.
Related: Some of the 1st ice age humans who ventured into Americas came from China, DNA study suggests "Little to no anthropological research was done in Laos since the second world war," study lead author Fabrice Demeter, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Copenhagen, told Live Science in an email. Debates about human colonization of Southeast Asia have taken place for decades as researchers have attempted to understand how and when humans crossed straits and seas to eventually end up in Australia.
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