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Mystery early human relatives reached Sulawesi over a million years ago, oldest evidence found on ‘hobbit’ island neighbor  Archaeology News Online Magazine Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene  Nature 1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existed  Live Science Stone tool discovery could offer new clue in mystery of …

Palaeomagnetic analysis Oriented block samples of approximately 10 × 10 × 10 cm3 each were carved with a sharp non-magnetic knife from fresh excavation baulks (samples Sp1 and Sp2) or from field exposures for palaeomagnetic analysis (Sp3–Sp14). Strike and dip were measured using a Brunton Compass corrected for local declination. Owing to the scarcity of suitable consolidated fine-grained layers, some samples were obtained from outcrops …