I read the article. No where does it say the researchers where surprised.
I hope people could be more honest here, as well as scientists everywhere.
Scientists should be allowed to discover new evidence and document it, even if it means an old theory is actually wrong. I love to hear new puzzle pieces in my own personal human origins quest. I took archaeology and anthropology in college during the early 1980s, and I can tell you a whole bunch of what was new and cutting edge then is now proved wrong.
I do understand, though. But we shouldn’t become too jaded because of all the liars like big government global warmers and government-approved Covid “experts” (meaning not those doctors who talk about so-called misinformation).