The Teeth that Altered History

Two teeth, neglected for 130 years, reveal that the modern man in the Indonesian archipelago had existed 20,000 years earlier than was previously thought. They lived in the tropical rain forests.

October 16, 2017

The stalactites and stalagmites visible from the cave at the foot of Mount Sago in the Regency of Lima Puluh Kota, West Sumatra, caused Kira Westway to halt. At the mouth of the cave he stood watching, comparing it with the rough sketch and the old map belonging to the Dutch paleoanthropologist Eugene Dubois, who discovered the fossil of the first Homo erectus, known as the Java man.

"At that moment I happily told myself: this is the Gua (cave) L

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