Tam Pà Ling, a cave in northern Laos, reveals new secrets about our earliest human journeys from Africa through to Australia.
Between 86,000 and 68,000 years ago, modern humans passed by a cave in mainland Southeast Asia on their way through Asia to become Australia’s First People.
Evidence for a human presence in this region lasting at least 56,000 years was found in approximately seven metres of cave sediment.
This evidence demonstrates our abilities to move through forested areas and along inland river systems, and could represent a previously-used migration path among our ancestors.
Tens of thousands of years before modern humans dominion over the planet, there they were on a Laotian mountaintop. Though, it seems their lineages went extinct
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The discovery of these fossils reinforces the hypothesis that our species left its African cradle multiple times before conquering the planet for good 60,000 years ago.