A cave in Laos holds the secrets of early human journeys around the world.
Looking back at the entrance of Tam Pà Ling cave from the cave floor. The excavation pit is the the left of this location.Humans can be found pretty much everywhere on the planet, but this wasn’t always the case. After, it was the beginning of a long journey as our species spread to distant corners of the world.
outlines how modern humans passed by a cave in Northern Laos on their way through Asia, around 40,000 years earlier than anthropologists had thought.The findings from the Tam Pà Ling cave demonstrate two crucial discoveries—that modern humans moved through Arabia and Asia much earlier than previously known, and that these humans weren’t afraid to travel through woods and forests to get there.
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