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Stone hand-axes from early hominoids, probably Homo Erectus, have been unearthed in Lenggong.

They date back 1. 83 million years, the oldest evidence of hominid habitation in Southeast Asia ..

The earliest evidence of modern human habitation in Malaysia dates back 40, 000 years.

A study of Asian genetics points to the idea that the original humans in Asia came from in Southeast Asia.

The indigenous groups on the peninsula can be divided into three ethnicities, the Negritos, the Senois, and the proto-Malays.

The first inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula were most probably Negritos.

These Mesolithic hunters were probably the ancestors of the Semang, an ethnic Negrito group who have a long history in the Malay Peninsula.