[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] Exploring changing occupation dynamics at the lakeside cave site Matja Kuru 2, Timor-Leste

23 November 2023 - Updated on 24 November 2023

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via Quaternary Science Advances, January 2024: Another paper by Samper Carro et al. on the Matja Kuru 2 cave in ...

[Paper] Taxonomy, taphonomy and chronology of the Pleistocene faunal assemblage at Ngalau Gupin cave, Sumatra

23 November 2023

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via Quaternary International, 30 November 2023: Ngalau Gupin, a karstic cave system in Sumatra, has unveiled a diverse Pleistocene faunal ...

Decoding the Hoabinhian: Southeast Asia’s Distinctive Stone Age Toolkit

31 October 2023

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via L'Anthropologie, 27 October 2023: This paper by Forestier et al. discusses the Hoabinhian toolkit, which includes weighty, thick tools ...

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 ...

12,000-Year-Old Fashion Trend Reveals Ancient Unity Across Indonesian Islands [Paper]

16 August 2023

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via Antiquity, 15 August 2023: A new paper in Antiquity reports that reflective shell beads were a common trend 12,000 ...

[Paper] Peopling island rainforests: global trends from the Early Pleistocene to the Late Holocene

18 October 2022

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via World Archaeology, 13 October 2022: An overview of how humans populated rainforests during the Pleistocene. The data has a ...

[Paper] A Late Pleistocene human genome from Southwest China

20 July 2022 - Updated on 28 July 2022

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via Current Biology, 14 July 2022: DNA sequences of a Pleistocene woman in Yunnan show close relations to populations in ...

[Paper] Geochemical fingerprinting of Pleistocene stone tools from the Tràng An Landscape Complex, Ninh Bình Province, Vietnam

29 June 2022

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via PLOS One, 22 June 2022: A cool paper by newly-minted PhD Benjamin Utting on the source of stone tools ...

[Paper] Late Pleistocene shell midden microstratigraphy indicates a complex history of human–environment interactions in the uplands of northern Vietnam

5 April 2022

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via Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 07 March 2022:

Tag: Pleistocene