Homo Erectus, Guys, Not HSS

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And they had to have boats to get there!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/sc...-1.3971622

Evidence of tools surrounding the carcass of a 700,000-year-old rhino suggests ancient man lived in the Philippines much earlier than once believed.
The animal's butchered corpse was found on the northern island of Luzon — the Philippines' largest — nearly 650,000 years prior to the timeframe scientists once established for humans in the country. But these people weren't the homosapiens we know today. It's believed that they were hominids or "hobbits."
Experts thought that early man wouldn't have been able to reach the island nation at that time because they didn't have boats to cross the water. Instead, a "freak" event likely lent a hand.

"They may have been caught in a tsunami and carried out to sea.

A tsunami?  Are you fucking kidding me?   Tsunamis kill people.  They do not serve as a magic carpet transit system!