8,000-year-old human remains discovered in Malaysia
An archaeological team from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Terengganu Museum report the discovery of human skeletal remains, estimated to be ...
Tag: bioarchaeology
News reports and information about Southeast Asian bioarchaeology and bioanthropology dealing with human remains.
See also: bones, burials and burial jars
Philippine police detain man transporting excavated skeletons
The police in Manila detain a Japanese man transporting some 100 skeletal remains. While the Japanese man has a permit ...
More evidence to point that the Hobbit is a new species
The news is abuzz today as two papers published in this week's Nature lend support to the theory that the ...
Tiny Hobbit cast unveiled
The cast of the controversial Liang Bua 1 hobbit was unveiled to the public on Tuesday at a special symposium ...
Public Lecture: Hobbits in Context: Hominin Biogeography in Island South East Asia (2009 Mulvaney Lecture)
Prof Mike Morwood of the Wollongong University is giving this year's Mulvaney Lecture at the Australian National University. He led ...
Prehistoric skeleton unearthed in Aceh
Prehistoric skeletal remains dating 3,500 years (Neolithic?) and ancient tools were found from an excavation in central Aceh in Indonesia. ...
Mysterious bones turn up in central Jakarta
Fossilised bone fragments belonging to an unknown animal have been discovered in a village near Jakarta while a villager was ...
The prehistoric men from Gia Lai
Archaeological remains from the southern Vietnamese site of Ia Mor reveals human remains, stone tools and jewellery. Remains of prehistoric ...
More reports on the Neolithic skeletons from Sarawak
The coverage of the Neolithic skeletons unearthed in Sarawak continues... (Read my fuller account here). Malaysian archaeologists find complete Neolithic ...
Malaysian reports on the Gua Hitam skeletons
As expected, most of the Malaysian papers carried reports about yesterday's press conference on the excavation of six skeletons from ...
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