Scientists discover oldest known piece of human storytelling
The oldest known work of human storytelling is a recently found cave painting in Indonesia, located on the Sulawesi island, with scientists estimating it was made almost 44,000 years ago. The painting features a group of half-human, half-animal hunting a wild boar species native to Indonesia. Several other paintings have been found near the location of the first and are in the process of being dated.
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World's oldest crater discovered in Australia
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Study finds last homo erectus settlement existed in Indonesia 100,000 years ago
Russell Ciochon, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Iowa, recently concluded a study which found that 100,000 years ago, long after the homo erectus species had gone extinct in the rest of the world, a colony of homo erectus that may have been the last of the species existed on the island of Java in Indonesia before homo sapiens arrived almost 40,000 years ago.
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Sumatran rhinoceros declared extinct in Malaysia
After being extinct from Malaysia's wildlife since 2015, the last Sumatran rhino in the country, a female named Iman, has died of cancer. Only a few members of the species remain, mostly in Indonesia, and the International Rhino Association believes they will become completely extinct in the next few decades due to loss of habitat and poaching.
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15,000-year-old site in Mexico reveals human-made 'mammoth traps'
Researchers have long believed that during the hunter-gatherer phase, humans were not very willing to hunt mammoths, giant elephant-like mammals, except in very special circumstances. But a discovery at Tultepec, north of Mexico City, has revealed human-made pits containing the bones of at least 14 mammoths. The pits were 1.7m deep and 25m wide, with perpendicular walls to prevent escape, suggesting humans may have hunted mammoths much more actively.
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