At https://phys.org/news/2025-06-hominin-fossils-recovered-submerged-sundaland.html … The Sundaland continental shelf system, like the North Sea basin, will prove to be a rich Pleistocene fossil record. As Indonesia is now exploring the shelf for oil and gas they will soon have their own version of Doggerland that we can all tune into. In this first discovery, or the first to hit the science community, we learn that the dimunitive Homo Floresiensis, and other hominins, but especially Homo erectus, are being dredged up from a region that was once dry land. Only 8000 years ago. It was drowned about the same time as the North Sea basin and the continental shelf around Cornwall, Ireland, and NW Europe in general. So far it is Homo erectus that has made a showing and the link provides a map of Sundaland. However, there are better visuals of the map at https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/first-hominin-fossils-sunken-sundaland/ … which appear to show Borneo, Sumatra, Java and the Malaysian peninusular as a single land mass. The finds, so far, date to the Middle Pleistocene – and has been submerged and re-emerged on several occasions. It is thought. More importantly, chronologically, is that the Homo erectus fossils date to Marine Stage 6. On that basis the finds can be correlated with other sites in different parts of the world. We also know that dry land existed in Sundaland during the Late Gacial Maximum, and the first half of the Holocene. Eventually, we will have a chronology of submergence and re-emergence so that archaeologists can better explore ancient fossils.
At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/ancient-dragon-man-skull-from-china-isnt-what-we-thought … a giant skull known as the dragon man turns out to be that of a Denisovan – otherwise only known form a tooth found in a cave in Siberia. It is almost a Neanderthal look alike. DNA analysis of the skull, found in China in 1933, has come up with the Denisovan link. One of the reasons is that it has been dated 146,000 years ago and Denisovans are dated between 217,000 and 106,000 years ago in central Asia. It seems like these people were widespread not only in central Asia but in East Asia and SE Asia.
At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/neanderthal-human-hybrid-child-world-oldest-burial-site/ … a child, buried around 140,000 years ago, in a cave in what is now Israel, was found to have traits in common with both Neanderthals and Modern Humans. It is thus claimed early humans may have interbred more widely that previously allowed.
At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/huge-surprise-reveals-how-some-humans-left-africa-50-000-years-ago … how did modern humans manage to leave Africa, and thrive, around 50,000 years ago, when earlier-excursions from the continent appear to have ended in failure? We are told genetic evidence suggests that all modern human populations outside Africa mostly derived from a small group that migrated Out of Africa 50,000 years ago. This politically motivated assumption seems to be set in stone – for the moment. However, by isolating it to a single group of people have they done a disservice to the evidence? There could hve been several, or even a lot of small groups, situated in diverse locations around the world – that survived the upheaval associated with the Laschamp Event. Basically, the upheaval involved a geomagnetic reversal and an incoming dose of cosmic rays and solar rays. This stopped dating via C14 methodology in its tracks. Laschamp was the buffers at the end of the line of C14 – because the influx was so huge, and the magnetic excursion so severe. What would it have been like for any humans or animals alive at the time? Were they driven to occupy caves in order to avoid the powerful surges in auroral phenomena associated with the excursion? In other words, is the evidence showing that earlier migrations Out of Africa failed solely because those lines died out but one strain managed to survive. One would think a lot of small lines may have survived. Mainstream theory is dominant only in the West, and those parts of the world that are heavily influenced by western ideas. This is where it is dsseminated almost like propaganda. Other regions do not agree – or it is muted as it has no benefit to their societies.