Stone tools unearthed on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that ancient human relatives arrived there between about 1 million and 1.5 million years ago — far earlier than previously known.
The discovery, described August 6 in Nature, pushes back the timeline for hominid occupation of Sulawesi by hundreds of thousands of years. It also suggests that ancient hominids lived on the island around the same time, or possibly earlier, than ancestors of small-bodied Homo floresiensis, the “hobbits” of nearby Flores, who lived on that island until about 50,000 years ago.
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