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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] The difference between TianYan and CroMagnon is fragments of a skull vs a full skull. And this is true across the board between Europe and Asia where they have many more ancient full skulls or skeletons whereas Asia has mostly fragments. As for skin color, there were plenty of areas in Asia even up to 100 years ago with dark skinned "black" Asians, so the idea that light skin swept the entire area thousands of years before that is a myth, even in Northern Asia. Again, South China is on the same latitude as Northern Africa. So there is no reason there wouldn't have been darker skinned people there even in more recent times. Unfortunately the racism of Asia comes from this belief spread by Europeans that Asian civilization originates in North East Asia from superior light skinned people. However the facts on the ground are just the opposite. Much of the culture in Asia originates from the South as in the spread of IndoBuddhist culture across South East Asia. And the ancient cultural traditions of tied to ancient Sundaland such as various styles of huts and stilt houses and other cultural traits extending into the Pacific. There are also ancient styles of martial arts that also existed in South and South East Asia before China and even the Chinese themselves say they got Kung Fu from India. Anyway, on the topic of ancient Asian remains, here is another recent set of remains found that may be the oldest found yet. [QUOTE] What connects a fossil found in a cave in northern Laos with stone tools made in north Australia? The answer is, we do. When our early Homo sapiens ancestors first arrived in Southeast Asia on their way from Africa to Australia, they left evidence of their presence in the form of human fossils that accumulated over thousands of years deep in a cave. The latest evidence from Tam Pŕ Ling cave in northern Laos, uncovered by a team of Laotian, French, American and Australian researchers and published in Nature Communications, demonstrates beyond doubt that modern humans spread from Africa through Arabia and to Asia much earlier than previously thought. It also confirms that our ancestors didn’t just follow coastlines and islands. They travelled through forested regions, most likely along river valleys, too. Some then moved on through Southeast Asia to become Australia’s First People. “Tam Pŕ Ling plays a key role in the story of modern human migration through Asia but its significance and value is only just being recognised,” says University of Copenhagen palaeoanthropologist Assistant Professor Fabrice Demeter, one of the paper’s lead authors. ... From 2010 to 2023, annual excavations (delayed by three years of lockdowns) revealed increasingly more evidence that Homo sapiens had passed through en route to Australia. Seven pieces of human skeleton were found at intervals through 4.5 metres of sediment, pushing the potential timeline far back into the realms of the earliest Homo sapiens migrations to this region. In this study*, the team overcame these issues by creatively applying strategic dating techniques where possible, such as the uranium-series dating of a stalactite tip that had been buried in sediment, and the use of uranium-series dating coupled with electron-spin-resonance dating techniques to two rare but complete bovid teeth, unearthed at 6.5 metres. [/QUOTE] https://popular-archaeology.com/article/a-rare-glimpse-of-our-first-ancestors-in-mainland-southeast-asia/ [/QB][/QUOTE]
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