new evidence pushes back the timing of human arrival in Southeast Asia
- Written by: Kira Westaway, Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
Kira Westaway, Author providedIn 2009, when our team first found a human skull and jaw bone in Tam Pà Ling Cave in northern Laos, some were sceptical of its origin and true age.
When we published a timeline in 2012 for the arrival of modern humans in mainland Asia around 46,000 years ago based on the Tam Pà Ling evidence, the...
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