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Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia ago

  • Written by Shimona Kealy, Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University
Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia agoANU, Author provided

Prehistoric axes and beads found in caves on a remote Indonesian island suggest this was a crucial staging post for seafaring people who lived in this region as the last ice age was coming to an end.

Our discoveries, published today in PLOS ONE, suggest humans arrived on the tropical island of Obi at least 18,000 years ago,...

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