[Paper] Homo sapiens in Island Southeast Asia: Toward a Maritime Specialization?

Studies of ancient coastal adaptations in ISEA reveal advanced maritime skills and cognitive capabilities of early humans, marking a key ...

[Paper] Direct dating of human fossils and the ever-changing story of human evolution

24 November 2023

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via Quaternary Science Reviews, 15 December 2023: Recent dating advancements have significantly altered our understanding of human evolution in Southeast ...

Liang Bua’s Intriguing Journey in Human Evolution

13 November 2023

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via Jurnal Flores, 07 November 2023: Liang Bua, a cave in Flores, Indonesia, gained international prominence following the discovery of ...

The ‘Hobbit’ Human: A 20-Year Journey from Discovery to DNA

16 October 2023

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via Kompas, 09 October 2023: Twenty years after its discovery on Flores Island, Indonesia, the Homo floresiensis, colloquially known as ...

Source: Nature Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68066-3

[Paper] Taphonomy and chronosequence of the 709 ka Kalinga site formation (Luzon Island, Philippines)

13 July 2020 - Updated on 30 March 2021

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via Nature Scientific Reports, 06 July 2020: For those interested in taphonomy, a closer look at the context from the ...

Homo luzonensis. Source: Business Insider 20200105

Everything we know about human evolution and origins, a summary of recent finds

10 January 2020 - Updated on 25 October 2020

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via Business Insider, 05 January 2020: A great summary article about recent discoveries in human origins and evolution that changed ...

[Paper] Last appearance of Homo erectus at Ngandong, Java, 117,000–108,000 years ago

19 December 2019 - Updated on 10 December 2020

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via Nature, 18 December 2019: New paper in Nature by Rizal et al. on Homo erectus in Southeast Asia - ...

Tracing origins of native Indonesians through archaeology

20 November 2019 - Updated on 17 October 2020

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via Jakarta Post, 08 November 2019: A recent exhibition at the National Museum of Indonesia explored the idea of nativeness ...

Simulating island dwarfism suggests how Homo floresiensis may have come to be

18 October 2019 - Updated on 5 December 2020

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via Biology Letters, 09 October 2019: A new paper presents simulations of body size evolution based on island dwarfism, and ...

Small skulls point to human migration highway to Australia

2 September 2019 - Updated on 10 December 2020

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via ANU News, 26 August 2019: More on the discovery of skulls from Alor Island. The paper from the Journal ...

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