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A tiny stone tool may have just rewritten human history

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October 2025

It's not yet clear who left the tool on the island

A tiny stone tool may have just rewritten human history

A discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the timeline of early human sea crossings and deepened the mystery of who made them.

Archaeologists unearthed a stone tool that is at least 1.04 million years old and possibly as ancient as 1.48 million years old - at Calio, a site in Southern Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Because Sulawesi has always been surrounded by deep, fast-moving waters, whoever made the tool would have needed to travel across open ocean.

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