The Indonesian Island of Sulawesi Is an Evolutionary Puzzle
via Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021: Sulawesi's role in understanding ancient migration routes to Australia.
Tag: Pleistocene
The Pleistocene is a geological period referring to approximately between 2.5 million to 11,700 years ago.
See also: Holocene, Palaeolithic, Neolithic
[Paper] Hominin homelands of East Java: Revised stratigraphy and landscape reconstructions for Plio-Pleistocene Trinil
via Quaternary Science Reviews, 15 May 2021: A landscape reconstruction of Pleistocene Trinil, providing a new environmental context to Homo ...
Quaternary International: Dispersal Barriers into Southeast Asia during the Late Pleistocene
A special issue of Quaternary International edited by Demeter and Bae, based on a panel session at the last IPPA ...
[Paper] Faces in the Stone: Further Finds of Anthropomorphic Engravings Suggest a Discrete Artistic Tradition Flourished in Timor-Leste in the Terminal Pleistocene
via Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 29 September 2020: New rock engraving sites discovered in East Timor.
[Paper] Island migration and foraging behaviour by anatomically modern humans during the late Pleistocene to Holocene in Wallacea: New evidence from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
via Quartenary International, 20 July 2020: A new paper discusses archaeological research in Topogaro cave in central Sulawesi and contextualises ...
[Paper] Pleistocene Water Crossings and Adaptive Flexibility Within the Homo Genus
via Journal of Archaeological Research, 14 September 2020: Interesting paper reviewing water crossings of hominids during the Pleistocene, with a ...
[Paper] Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia
via Nature, 07 October 2020: A study of ancient environments by Louys and Roberts showw how the expansion and contraction ...
[Paper] Forty-thousand years of maritime subsistence near a changing shoreline on Alor Island (Indonesia)
via Quarternary Science Reviews, Sep 2020: A new paper by Kealy et al. reveals a new oldest Pleistocene cave site ...
[Paper] Early ground axe technology in Wallacea: The first excavations on Obi Island
via PLoSOne: A new Open Access paper by Shipton et al. about the archaeology of Obi Island in northern Maluku, ...
[Paper] Taphonomy and chronosequence of the 709 ka Kalinga site formation (Luzon Island, Philippines)
via Nature Scientific Reports, 06 July 2020: For those interested in taphonomy, a closer look at the context from the ...
© 2019
