Archaeologists Just Found Something Incredible in Indonesia

A million years ago, ancient humans were crossing miles of open sea.

And that leaves us with a shocking question: if they really did conquer the ocean that early, what else have we underestimated about them?

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Its always been thought, the first humans to master the oceans were our species. But, in recent years, some cracks in that tidy picture have started to emerge. Accident or not, these discoveries further prove archaic humans were crossing dozens to hundreds of kilometers of open water more than a million years before Homo sapiens took a single stroke. But at what point does coincidence start looking like behavior?

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