Homo erectus lived in the area now known as Laos for more than one million years.
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- https://factsanddetails.com/asian/cat62/sub406/entry-2811.html (factsanddetails.com)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9114389/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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