Cave excavation pushes back the clock on early human migration to Laos

Credit: Photo by Fabrice Demeter

The team excavated through layers of sediments and bones that gradually washed into the Tam Pa Ling cave in northeastern Laos and were left untouched for tens of thousands of years.

« Cave excavation pushes back the clock on early human migration to Laos

Credit: Photo by Laura Shackelford

The excavation of Tam Pa Ling cave involved digging a 23-foot (7-meter) trench from the surface of the cave to bedrock while painstakingly collecting and documenting the soils, animal bones and human bones discovered there.

« Cave excavation pushes back the clock on early human migration to Laos

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