Evidence in Indonesia Suggests Earliest Human Voyages 50,000 Years Ago
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Evidence in Indonesia Suggests Earliest Human Voyages 50,000 Years Ago

New research suggests humans may have started voyaging as early as 50,000 years ago, with stone tool discoveries in Indonesia's Flores and Sulawesi islands providing key evidence. This pushes back the timeline significantly from the previously recognized oldest evidence, the Pesse boat in the Netherlands (10,000 years old).

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