Tibi Puiu | ZME Science Anthropologists have discovered an
ancient skull in a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern
Laos, which according to subsequent dating is the oldest
evidence of modern human presence found in Southeast Asia. This
would clock on modern human migration through the region by as
much as 20,000 years, and adds weight to the theory which states
that our forefathers which left Africa didn’t just settle for
the coastlines, but also inhabited diverse habitats much earlier
than previously thought. The team of researchers found the
fragmented skull in the Annamite Mountains around the year 2009.
This was the first bone dig in the country of Laos since the
early 1900s. Back then, during the first digs at the turn of the
last century, fossils were found which as old as 16,000 years.
These latest findings however have been dated as being 46,000 to
63,000 years old. “It’s a particularly old modern human fossil
and it’s also a particularly old modern human for that region,”
said University of Ill