Early humans

• Faded hand shape in Indonesian cave may be world’s oldest rock art - A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.
• Archaeologists finally know what wiped out Indonesia’s ‘hobbit’ humans - Previous research linked disappearance of small-brained species to arrival of modern humans