Interesting photographic depictions of cave and their excavations. The early humans living there would have done so during the Mt Toba super-volcano eruption.

>>Dr Curnoe, who is co-leading the excavation with members of the Sarawak Museum, hopes this dig can shed light on when humans like us — Homo sapiens — first arrived in South-East Asia.

“We have no sense when the very earliest modern humans really arrived in ,” says Dr Curnoe, of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage.

These are the ancestors of the Indigenous people across South-East Asia and Australia and New Guinea.”<<

>>As of last year, there’s a study from Indonesia that suggests modern humans first arrived in South-East Asia between about 60,000 and 70,000 years ago.”

If it’s right, that timing would place modern humans in the region soon after one of the most catastrophic events in Earth’s history.

“Just before the time that modern humans get into South-East Asia, we have the largest volcanic eruption that’s happened on the planet in the last two million years.”<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-27/traders-cave-bone-hunting-in-borneo-near-deep-skull/10215358?

PermeateFree said:

Interesting photographic depictions of cave and their excavations. The early humans living there would have done so during the Mt Toba super-volcano eruption.

>>Dr Curnoe, who is co-leading the excavation with members of the Sarawak Museum, hopes this dig can shed light on when humans like us — Homo sapiens — first arrived in South-East Asia.

“We have no sense when the very earliest modern humans really arrived in ,” says Dr Curnoe, of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage.

These are the ancestors of the Indigenous people across South-East Asia and Australia and New Guinea.”<<

>>As of last year, there’s a study from Indonesia that suggests modern humans first arrived in South-East Asia between about 60,000 and 70,000 years ago.”

If it’s right, that timing would place modern humans in the region soon after one of the most catastrophic events in Earth’s history.

“Just before the time that modern humans get into South-East Asia, we have the largest volcanic eruption that’s happened on the planet in the last two million years.”<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-27/traders-cave-bone-hunting-in-borneo-near-deep-skull/10215358?

> As of last year, there’s a study from Indonesia that suggests modern humans first arrived in South-East Asia between about 60,000 and 70,000 years ago. If it’s right, that timing would place modern humans in the region soon after one of the most catastrophic events in Earth’s history.

Mt Toba erupted some 75,000 +- 900 years ago.

Calling 5,000 to 15,000 years “soon” in this context is not particularly useful. It’s interesting to take it on board though, we’d need to know how long it took other plants and animals to return after the eruption.

mollwollfumble said:

> As of last year, there’s a study from Indonesia that suggests modern humans first arrived in South-East Asia between about 60,000 and 70,000 years ago. If it’s right, that timing would place modern humans in the region soon after one of the most catastrophic events in Earth’s history.

Mt Toba erupted some 75,000 +- 900 years ago.

Calling 5,000 to 15,000 years “soon” in this context is not particularly useful. It’s interesting to take it on board though, we’d need to know how long it took other plants and animals to return after the eruption.

The date they arrived isn’t set in stone so to speak. Aboriginal relics in Australia may be older.

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

Interesting photographic depictions of cave and their excavations. The early humans living there would have done so during the Mt Toba super-volcano eruption.

>>Dr Curnoe, who is co-leading the excavation with members of the Sarawak Museum, hopes this dig can shed light on when humans like us — Homo sapiens — first arrived in South-East Asia.

“We have no sense when the very earliest modern humans really arrived in ,” says Dr Curnoe, of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage.

These are the ancestors of the Indigenous people across South-East Asia and Australia and New Guinea.”<<

>>As of last year, there’s a study from Indonesia that suggests modern humans first arrived in South-East Asia between about 60,000 and 70,000 years ago.”

If it’s right, that timing would place modern humans in the region soon after one of the most catastrophic events in Earth’s history.

“Just before the time that modern humans get into South-East Asia, we have the largest volcanic eruption that’s happened on the planet in the last two million years.”<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-27/traders-cave-bone-hunting-in-borneo-near-deep-skull/10215358?

> As of last year, there’s a study from Indonesia that suggests modern humans first arrived in South-East Asia between about 60,000 and 70,000 years ago. If it’s right, that timing would place modern humans in the region soon after one of the most catastrophic events in Earth’s history.

Mt Toba erupted some 75,000 +- 900 years ago.

Calling 5,000 to 15,000 years “soon” in this context is not particularly useful. It’s interesting to take it on board though, we’d need to know how long it took other plants and animals to return after the eruption.

They were referring to primitive Homo sapiens (prior to modern humans that arrived in the region after the eruption).