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Researchers explain how a skull and jawbone from a Laos cave helps push back the timing of modern humans’ migration into Southeast Asia.

Archaeologists found two bone fragments at the bottom of a cave in northern Laos with an age of 86,000 years ago that suggest modern humans had reached Southeast Asia when the Toba volcano erupted violently 74,000 years ago.

Tam Pà Ling, a cave located in the northern region of Laos, unveils new insights into the earliest human migrations from Africa all the way to Australia. What links a fossil discovered in a northern Laotian cave to ancient stone tools from northern Australia? It's us, Homo sapiens. As our forebea

There's still much we don't know about the timeline of humans.

New research has refined the timeline of modern human remains in a Laos cave, pushing back the arrival of modern humans in Asia to before the major migration out of Africa.

New evidence from contested Laos cave site shows humans reached Southeast Asia at least 68,000 years ago.

In 2009, when our team first found a human skull and jaw bone in Tam Pà Ling Cave in northern Laos, some were sceptical of its origin and true age.

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In the bowels of a Laotian cave, illuminated by faint sunlight and bright lamps, scientists have unearthed the earliest known evidence of our human ancestors making their way through mainland Southeast Asia en route to Australia some 86,000 years ago.