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Mystery Archaic Hominins Lived in Sulawesi 1.04 Million Years Ago
Sci News ^ | August 7, 2025 | News Staff

Posted on 08/09/2025 10:44:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

The dispersal of archaic hominins beyond mainland Southeast Asia (Sunda) represents the earliest evidence for humans crossing ocean barriers to reach isolated landmasses. Previously, the oldest indication of hominins in Wallacea, the oceanic island zone east of Sunda, comprised flaked stone artifacts deposited at least 1.02 million years ago at the site of Wolo Sege on the island of Flores. On Sulawesi, the largest Wallacean island, previous excavations revealed stone artifacts with a minimum age of 194,000 years at the open site of Talepu. Now, archaeologists from Griffith University show that stone artifacts also occur at the nearby site of Calio in fossiliferous layers dated to at least 1.04 million years and possibly up to 1.48 million years. This discovery suggests that Sulawesi was populated by hominins at around the same time as Flores, if not earlier.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; archaichominins; flores; godsgravesglyphs; hominins; homofloresiensis; pleistocene; sulawesi; sunda; talepu; wallacea

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1 posted on 08/09/2025 10:44:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 08/09/2025 10:45:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv

In my view, there is no such thing as a hominoid. They are all either human or ape.


3 posted on 08/09/2025 10:53:26 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If you put some water in your gas tank, with your gas, the gas will stay in the tank longer.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I don’t believe this out of Africa BS. It is just too racially convenient. Humans originated in SE Asia and maybe some came out of Africa.

See Robert Sepehr on you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lABvt4l0S3Y&t=10s

Out-of-Africa Theory Debunked - ROBERT SEPEHR
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4 posted on 08/09/2025 11:34:35 PM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity)
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To: SunkenCiv

Not to be confused with one of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning.


5 posted on 08/09/2025 11:59:50 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Beauty is only skin deep but Democrat goes to the bone.)
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To: dennisw
I don’t believe this out of Africa BS. It is just too racially convenient. Humans originated in SE Asia and maybe some came out of Africa.

The Bible says Adam and Eve originated in Iraq, which is where Eden is said to have been located.

Of course, Noah's clan spread out from Turkey.

6 posted on 08/10/2025 12:00:11 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97
The Bible says Adam and Eve originated in Iraq,

Where does it say that?

7 posted on 08/10/2025 2:03:16 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Jonty30

“Mystery Archaic Hominins Lived in Sulawesi 1.04 Million Years Ago”

-Unfortunately, they left no forwarding address.


8 posted on 08/10/2025 2:27:51 AM PDT by JewishRighter (NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW)
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To: dennisw

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4411.Eden_in_the_East

Are you referring to this?

Interesting arguments...but they do not account for the ages referred to in this article. Too recent...


9 posted on 08/10/2025 2:40:05 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Adder

Your book might be good.
You know the racial situation today with all its anti-colonialism and anti-whiteness. Its elevation of all matters black and indigenous. This make me reject Out Of Africa theories. They are too cute, too politically correct.
See the Robert Sepehr video I posted that covers this.


10 posted on 08/10/2025 2:53:54 AM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity)
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To: SunkenCiv

I read that as arachnid hominins.


11 posted on 08/10/2025 3:13:33 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: SunkenCiv

What I find fascinating and important is that they could “Float” that far back.


12 posted on 08/10/2025 3:16:13 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Openurmind

Please read The Urantia Book will explain this exactly. ❤️


13 posted on 08/10/2025 3:18:20 AM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: Uversabound

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/food/sleepytime-tea-secret-religion-behind-celestial-seasonings/news-story/9228510c5786f9b611306909484c40df


14 posted on 08/10/2025 3:33:51 AM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity)
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To: Uversabound

I’m hip, studied it a lot. I actually believe we are indeed biologically engineered. It just makes too much sense when you figure in the time scales and the biological advancements step by step. I think it was done incrementally in stages several tens of thousands of years apart. I think Homo Erectus was the first stage... Then came the next stage the Urantia describes a half million years ago, then the next, until the final product Sapien Sapien was achieved.


15 posted on 08/10/2025 3:43:37 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Jonty30
They are all either human or ape.

All hominins are hominoids, but not all hominoids are hominins.

16 posted on 08/10/2025 3:50:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Openurmind
Punctuated Equilibrium, anyone...?

FWIW, I think of human evolution as more of crap shoot, lots of losing rolls of the dice until God's creation threw boxcars.

17 posted on 08/10/2025 4:00:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: dennisw

I’m holding out for the origin to be Antarctica when it was ice free.


18 posted on 08/10/2025 4:31:28 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hopefully the thread doesn’t turn into ad hominids attacks


19 posted on 08/10/2025 4:35:11 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: mewzilla

I think we evolved at all. It think we were created in stages small DNA changes at each installment. But each installment would have to be allowed to prove it’s self for a couple hundred thousand years to weed out the weak and make the previous strain stronger and ready for the next installment. It fits... One species ends and another pops up slightly more biologically advanced at the same time, then repeat, then repeat.

They didn’t evolve along side each other simultaneously like they should have like Canine species and others. A new biologically dominant species always replaced the older one. And they have always had trouble explaining why this is. Why they each remained biologically the same for tens of thousands of years and then almost overnight they are replaced and go extinct. If this is true, it then begs the question who did this engineering?

I now believe the Sumerians were right... And the same concept is supported by almost every origin story in the world except Christianity.


20 posted on 08/10/2025 4:35:26 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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