Prehistoric people were in Indonesia a million years ago

Australian scientists believe that prehistoric people lived on the Indonesian island of Flores at least a million years ago, after being found at an archaeological site of stone tools dating back to the Hominin era. (a member of the Homininae family) resides on the island.

Thanks to this discovery, scientists are now deducing that the mysterious human species may have evolved into the famous Hobbit dwarf of Flores.

Archaeological excavations.

According to Dr. Adam Brumm, a researcher at the Archaeological Science Center of Wollongong University, scientists have found a place at the Soa basin in the center of Flores Island, where prehistoric people lived. at least 120,000 years.

Dr. Brumm and the team of scientists came to Indonesia to find out whether humans lived on the threshold of Australia ever since digging some rudimentary stone tools in a layer of sediment surrounded by layers volcanic ash. Argon analysis showed that these tools date to about a million years.

Brumm said the scientists could not deepen it, so there is absolutely no concept of how long the Hominin people lived on the island, maybe two million years.

Dr. Brumm said that the finding creates some credibility for the theory that it was the Hominin mystic who was the ancestor of the Hobbit dwarf (whose scientific name is Homo Floresiensis) on Flores Island.

Recent studies are based on certain characteristics of the feet, brain, skull, and hands, practically suggesting that the hobbit's shoulders and bones suggest that this person may have evolved from a group. much more primitive species, which is Homo erectus (straight-up), an extinct strain of Hominid people (members of the Hominidae family, upper class of the subfamily Homininae) originating from Africa. .

According to Dr. Brumm, the door is certainly open to the possibility that the mysterious new Hominid-like lineage may have been present somewhere in Southeast Asia and possibly on the island of Flores at an extreme time. early.

Dr. Brumm hopes to find more evidence when he and his colleagues expand the study of human ancestors.

The work of Australian scientists has been published in the March 18 issue of Nature.