A skull fragment and shin bone suggest that early modern humans might have passed through southeast Asia earlier than thought.
Fossil records in southeast Asia are limited, in part because the tropical climate decomposes most bones. The details of when early humans first arrived in the region, where they came from and where they migrated to is still a matter of debate, Shackelford says. Laos lies on a potential migration route to Australia, where the oldest archaeological site is around 65,000 years old
“We’re seeing something different,” Stark says. That doesn’t mean that the genetic models are incorrect, she says, just that the picture they reveal is incomplete.H. sapiens
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