{"id":59300,"date":"2025-08-13T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=59300"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:55:37","slug":"wallacean-hominids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wallacean-hominids\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallacean Hominids"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Wallacean Hominids Latest News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Recently, scientists have found possible artefacts of oldest known Wallacean hominids on Indonesia\u2019s Sulawesi island.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>About Wallacean Hominids<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The earliest Wallacean humans, <strong>pre-historic persons known as Homo Erectus,<\/strong> were thought to have only settled in Indonesia\u2019s <strong>Flores island and Philippines\u2019 Luzon island around 1.02 million years ago.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">They were thought to be incapable of distant sea travel, proving the significance of the Sulawesi findings in theories of migration.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found the small, chipped tools, used to cut little animals and carve rocks, under the soil in the region of Soppeng in South Sulawesi.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">These were artefacts made by ancient humans who lived on the earth long before the evolution of our species, Homo Sapiens,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Key Facts about Wallacea<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">It is a region in Eastern Indonesia including several islands such as Sulawesi, Lombok, Flores, Timor, Sumbawa that lie between <strong>Borneo and Java and Australia and New Guinea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The region is named for the <strong>naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace<\/strong> who studied the fauna and flora of the area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/scientists-find-possible-artefacts-of-oldest-known-wallacean-hominids-in-indonesia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DD News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wallacean Hominids pre-historic persons known as Homo Erectus, were thought to have only settled in Indonesia\u2019s Flores island and Philippines\u2019 Luzon island around 1.02 million years ago. Read more about Wallacean Hominids, Family, Types, Key Facts, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":59297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,23,2166],"class_list":{"0":"post-59300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"tag-wallacean-hominids","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}