[Paper] Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics
via Science Advances, 12 June 2020: New discoveries from Sri Lanka - evidence for the oldest bow and arrow technology ...
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] Functional studies of flaked and ground stone artefacts reveal starchy tree nut and root exploitation in mid-Holocene highland New Guinea
via The Holocene, 12 May 2020: New paper describing starch residues on mortar and pestle fragments in Papua New Guinea ...
[Paper] Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea
via Nature Communications, 29 April 2020: Analysis of human and animal tooth enamel indicate that while the earliest known humans ...
[Paper] Holocene paleoshoreline changes of the Red River Delta, Vietnam
via Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, July 2020: New paleoshoreline modeling for the Red River Delta dating from 10,000 BP ...
[Paper] Hand stencil discoveries at Lene Hara Cave hint at Pleistocene age for the earliest painted art in Timor-Leste
via Archaeological Research in Asia, 18 March 2020: A new paper reports the discovery of hand stencils in East Timor, ...
Portable, Pocket-Sized Rock Art Discovered in Ice Age Indonesian Cave
via Smithsonian Magazine, 20 March 2020: Another story about the recently-discovered portable rock art discovered in Sulawesi. Twenty thousand years ...
[Paper] Portable art from Pleistocene Sulawesi
via Nature Human Behaviour, 16 March 2020: A new an exciting paper from Langley et al. in Nature Human Behaviour ...
[Paper] A younger “earliest human migration” to Southeast Asia
via Science, 10 January 2020: A new paper in Science presents new dates of the volcanic ash in which the ...
Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo has a minimum age of 40,000 years
via Nature, 07 November 2019: A new paper published in Nature reveals a minimum 40,000 year from rock art sites ...
[Paper] Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka
via PLOS One, 02 October 2019: Microliths found in Sri Lanka dating to 45,000 years may indicate how early humans ...
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