The Minority Report

AFP: Malaysian scientists find stone tools ‘oldest in Southeast Asia’

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysian archaeologists have announced the discovery of stone tools they believe are more than 1.8 million years old and the earliest evidence of human ancestors in Southeast Asia.

“This is the earliest evidence of Paleolithic culture in the Southeast Asian region,” said Mokhtar from Malaysia’s University of Science, who said he believed the hand-axes were used by homo erectus, an extinct early human.