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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Scientists discover oldest known piece of human storytelling
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