As a part of Riwanua’s Easy Launching, we invite our friend Basran Burhan, a young archeologist and also part of the team that discovered the world’s oldest 44,500-year-old cave painting in Leang Tedonge, Maros, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. From him, we will hear stories and experiences of how he began studying and working as an archeologist until he was involved in a research project and found something that changed the world’s understanding and knowledge of human evolution. Basran Burhan was born in 1985 and raised in Bulukumba, South Sulawesi. In 2003 he studied at the Department of Archeology, Faculty of Letters (now Faculty of Cultural Sciences), Universitas Hasanuddin. When he was a student, he was frequently involved in research projects organized by Balai Arkeologi and Balai Pelestarian Cagar Budaya, Sulawesi Selatan. In 2012 he was also involved in conducting research in Lembah Soa and Liang Bua-Flores, the site of the discovery of Homo Floresiensis, “The Hobbit”. Since 2011 until now he has been involved in a research project in Maros-Pangkep with the topic “In Search of Celebes Man in Sulawesi”. His research has been published in several journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017), Plos One (2018), Science Advances (2021), Nature (2021). Now, Basran is a PhD candidate in archeology at the Australian Research Center for Human Evolution (ARCHE), Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.