Alat batu dari 1,04 juta tahun lalu. M.W. Moore/University of New England

Alat batu ini berusia lebih dari 1 juta tahun. Bagaimana pembuatnya bisa sampai ke Sulawesi?

Ini adalah bukti pertama bahwa manusia purba melakukan penyeberangan laut yang tangguh dari daratan utama ke Sulawesi setidaknya 1 juta tahun yang lalu.
A stone tool from 1.04 million year ago. M.W. Moore/University of New England

This stone tool is over 1 million years old. How did its maker get to Sulawesi without a boat?

It’s the first evidence that early humans made a formidable sea crossing from the mainland to Sulawesi at least 1 million years ago.
Stone arrowheads (Maros points) and other flaked stone implements from the Toalean culture of South Sulawesi. Shahna Britton/Andrew Thomson

Who were the Toaleans? Ancient woman’s DNA provides first evidence for the origin of a mysterious lost culture

The first ancient human DNA from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi — and the wider Wallacea islands group — sheds light on the early human history of the region.
Lukisan babi kutil ini berusia lebih dari 45.500 tahun. Basran Burhan/Griffith University

Bagaimana perubahan iklim menghapus seni cadas tertua di dunia

Lukisan gua kuno baru mulai memberi tahu kita tentang kehidupan manusia purba di Australasia. Seni ini menghilang saat kita baru mencoba memahami maknanya.
This Warty Pig is part of a panel dated to more than 45,500 years in age. Basran Burhan/Griffith University

How climate change is erasing the world’s oldest rock art

The ancient cave paintings have only begun to tell us about the lives of the earliest people who lived in Australasia. The art is disappearing just as we are beginning to understand its significance.

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