A group of humanity’s predecessors known as Homo erectus had reached eastern Asia by 1.5 million years ago and inhabited the region until about 1.0 million years ago, a new investigation finds.
The findings, based on chemical analyses of fossil-bearing soil on the Indonesian island of Java, lend weight to the theory that H.
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