Archaeologists Just Found Something Incredible in Indonesia

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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? Help support me and get LOTS of Bonus Content on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MichaelButton 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? Join me for a chat in my Discord server! 👉 https://discord.gg/ddQSSw2JQA For weekly ramblings, join my FREE email list below 👇 https://michael-button.kit.com/signup Let me know what you think in the comments, and thank you for watching!! Follow me on X: https://twitter.com/MichaelButtonX Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbuttonx/ Check out my awesome video editor Charlie: https://ytjobs.co/talent/profile/265482 Big thank you to our Top Tier Supporters! - Matthew - JRayZimmer Sources (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line?utm https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric-Grossman/publication/303543956/figure/fig1/AS:366134290337792@1464304625683/Late-Quaternary-sea-level-after-Lea-and-others-2002-is-marked-by-100-000-year.png https://becominghuman.org/timeline/first-evidence-of-water-craft/?utm (2) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20237472/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/stone-tools-rhinoceros-luzon-philippines-ancient-hominins-science?utm (3) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09348-6 https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/august/ancient-human-species-island-hopping-asia-over-a-million-years-ago.html?utm https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01588.x?utm_source=chatgpt.com#:~:text=By%20the%20Late%20Cretaceous%20West%20Sulawesi%20was%20part%20of%20the%20Asian%20margin%20and%20became%20separated%20from%20it%20in%20the%20Eocene%20(about%2045%20Mya) (4) https://scispace.com/pdf/the-palaeogeography-of-sundaland-and-wallacea-since-the-late-3d9fhdqzgv.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com (5) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331492316_The_Moyjil_site_south-west_Victoria_Australia_fire_and_environment_in_a_120000-year_coastal_midden_-_nature_or_people https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2019/07/08/1375658/moyjil-mystery-victorian-site-could-force-a-120000-year-rethink-on-australian-history (6) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331490783_The_Moyjil_site_south-west_Victoria_Australia_excavation_of_a_Last_Interglacial_charcoal_and_and_burnt_stone_feature_-_is_it_a_hearth https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/the-moyjil-site-south-west-victoria-australia-excavation-of-a-las If you enjoyed this video, please consider subscribing to my channel!