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Could Homo sapiens and a now-extinct early human species have lived alongside each other on an Indonesian more than 65,000 years ago?
Transforming Human Origins Research Centre of Excellence to reframe the study of our species globally.
On towering rock panels, artists inscribed artworks of camels, ibex, gazelles and more, risking their lives to create 'billboards' that signalled the presence of people and water bodies.
Early hominins made a major deep-sea crossing to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi much earlier than previously established, based on the discovery of stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago.
Oldest long-distance seafaring expedition took place before the invention of boats with sails, likely using simple dugout canoes.
Study sheds new light on unrecognised but important crossroad for biogeographic exchange between Africa and Eurasia.
Study finds 9,000-year-old Arabian lake flooded the Empty Quarter and drove early human movements.
Species heavily impacted by climate change and humans over a short evolutionary period.
Homo erectus thrived in hyper-arid landscapes one million years ago.
Discovery of rare early human fossils from Indonesia further unravels mystery of 'Hobbits'.
