Ancient “hobbies” ancestors, once lived on Indonesian Flores Island, were not the only early hominines, and over a million years ago to cross deep obstacles of the ocean.
Archaeologists from Indonesia and Australia have now discovered a mysterious neighbor who lived on Sulawsi island north at about the same time, if not earlier, discovered tools.
“It is very unlikely that these early hominines had cognitive capabilities (especially the ability to plan advanced), and the boat is needed to invent,” said Archaeologist and expedition, Adam Brumm, an archaeologist and fellow expedition.
“Hominins were more likely to go to Sulawesi by accident, probably because of the” raft “on natural vegetation rugs. It is believed that rodents and monkeys from the Asian continent crossed the crossing to reach Slawesi. “
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Seven Sulawesi stones were found at different depths underground, but according to the dating of local sandstone and nearby pig fossil, the age of tools ranges from 1.04 million years to 1.48 million years.
If correct, artefacts could show the earliest evidence of human activity Wallacea, most of the line of Indonesian islands, which have been separated by Asian and Australian continents for millions of years.
The identity of the isolated tool manufacturers remains a mystery.
For decades, Brumm has studied early hominins in the region and, along with the Sulawes archaeological expedition, along with Budian Hakim, he led from the National Investigation and Innovation Agency in Indonesia (Brin).
The archaeologist Debbie’s argument that did not attend the discovery, Sciencealert said the conclusions are “most important” because they add to the staggering fact that early Pleistocene hominines could somehow cross the sea.
“With evidence on homininin on three islands that never attached to the continent – Flores, Luzon, and now Sulawesi – The island’s Southeast Asia is formed as an extraordinary wall of human evolution, ”Argue said.
A stone tool found on Sulawesi. (MW Moore/New England University)
To date, the earliest stone tools in Wallacea, which are believed to have been 1.02 million years old, have been from Flores Island.
Flores is the same place where archaeologists discovered briefly built Homo Floresiensis – also known as a “hobby” in a cave 2003; This subway high hominin (3.3 feet) with a brain in size grapefruit He was surprised by the world when he was found because he did not seem like another early man.
Residues H. Floriensis Date up to 100,000 years oldbut its ancestors on the island Date Back 700,000 years old; Those ancestors probably produced 1.02 million old stone tools about Flores- or landed Human warning Or another type of hominin in the mainland of Asia.
Based on 2021 In an interview with archaeologist Lucy Timbrel, Brumm accidentally occurred using Flores tools, and “nursing a terrible hangover” for the local village ceremony at night before.
“While paying for the spinning heat, in the astonished state, I found some severely male stone tools emanating from the Fluvial conglomerate affected by the sewer,” the brumm recalled in an interview.
“Since then, I have tried to make great archaeological discoveries in Badove, but it has only worked once.”
A stone tool collection found on Sulawesi. (MW Moore/New England University)
Archaeologists still have to reveal hominin fossils with sulawesi, but the evidence of stone tools shows their existence.
It is unknown whether the Sulawesi population was associated with Hominins in Flores, but the late Mike Mordy, one of 2003. H. Floresiensis Came from.
“We have always suspected that hominines have been set up for a very long time, but so far we have never found clear evidence,” said Brummas Sciencealert.
Morwood’s thinking, Brumm suspects that Sulawesi was once a step to Flores from Continental Asia (which was once before Java and Borneo).
2010 Mord said Guardian The fact that he suspected Slawesi tools can bring back two million years. “It will help the cat among the pigeons,” he said at the time.
Undoubtedly, he would be impressed with the work of the recently done teams of Brumm and Hakim.
Archaeologists are now planning to look for the remains of Sulawesi’s immediate mysterious tool manufacturers.
“We also work in much younger places that we hope will give insights on what happened to these early people when our species came to the island at least 65,000 years ago,” Brumm said.
The investigation has been published Nature;