Papua New Guinea skull ‘world’s oldest tsunami victim’
via AFP-New Straits Times, 26 October 2017: A 6,000-year-old skull found in Papua New Guinea is likely the world’s oldest-known ...
Tag: bioarchaeology
News reports and information about Southeast Asian bioarchaeology and bioanthropology dealing with human remains.
See also: bones, burials and burial jars
The struggle to understand the Hobbit
via Cosmos, 27 September 2017: The discovery of Homo floresiensis in 2003 threw up many questions about the history of ...
‘We’ve found the missing 20,000 years’: crucial piece in human migration puzzle
via Sydney Morning Herald, 20 August 2017: An interview with Dr Kira Westaway from the University of Wollonggong and the ...
Humans occupied northern Australia 65,000 years ago: What does this mean for SEA?
An exciting paper was published last week in Nature and received a fair bit of media coverage: dating from the ...
Following an ancient trail
Bangkok Post, 6 June 2017: Thailand has been the centre of the international archaeological community recently after a published report ...
Carbon dating confirms ‘Penang Woman’ is 5,710 years old
The Malay Mail, 12 May 2017: Fresh C14 dates for the skeleton found at Guar Kepah in Penang reveals it ...
5,000-year-old skeleton found in Guar Kepah
New Straits Times, 25 April 2017: More on the skeleton found at Guar Kepah in Penang. There are now some ...
[Paper] The affinities of Homo floresiensis based on phylogenetic analyses of cranial, dental, and postcranial characters
This newly published paper by ANUs Debbie Argue has been making the news recently. A new analysis of the bones ...
Prehistoric human skeleton found at Penang neolithic site
Malay Mail, 19 April 2017: Human remains have been found during construction at Guar Kepah in Penang, a known shell ...
Facial reconstruction of a woman from Pleistocene Thailand
A new paper from Antiquity presents a facial reconstruction of a woman found in Tham Lod, a Pleistocene site in ...
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