Oldest Signs of Human Ancestors' Trek to Australia Found in Laotian Cave

In the bowels of a Laotian cave, illuminated by faint sunlight and bright lamps, scientists have unearthed the earliest known evidence of our human ancestors making their way through mainland Southeast Asia en route to Australia some 86,000 years ago.

Any trace of human remains is a delight for archaeologists – but none more so when they dust off a discovery, date it, and realize it could push back timelines of early human migration in an area by more than ten thousand years.

The international team of researchers behind this new discovery dug deeper than others had gone before in a karst cave in northern Laos, unearthing a skull fragment with delicate features, and the shard of a leg bone.

https://www.sciencealert.com/oldest-signs-of-human-ancestors-trek-to-australia-found-in-laotian-cave

It looks like the "waves of modern humans leaving Africa" theory is the correct one.