Ancient humans were weirdly slow to cross from mainland Asia to Java

Homo erectus probably only arrived on Indonesia about 1.3 million years ago, even though they were widespread in Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier

Source:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229610-ancient-humans-were-weirdly-slow-to-cross-from-mainland-asia-to-java/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home