The world is introduced to Homo luzonensis – a news roundup
Big archaeology news from last week that has made news around the world as the announcement of a new identified ...
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] Coastal Subsistence Strategies and Mangrove Swamp Evolution at Bubog I Rockshelter (Ilin Island, Mindoro, Philippines) from the Late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene
via The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 10 Feb 2019:
[Paper] Shifting subsistence patterns from the Terminal Pleistocene to Late Holocene: A regional Southeast Asian analysis
via Quartenary International, 07 Jan 2019: Taking a statistical approach to analysing faunal remains at archaeological sites across Southeast Asia ...
Sarawak to re-submit bid to make Niah Caves Unesco heritage site
via Malay Mail, 22 January 2019: The Sarawak Government expresses renewed interest to nominate the Niah Caves as a World ...
Plastic pioneers: Hominin biogeography east of the Movius Line during the Pleistocene
via Archaeological Research in Asia, 25 January 2019: A new paper by Roberts and Amano looking at human occupation of ...
Late Middle Pleistocene Levallois stone-tool technology in southwest China
via Nature, 19 November 2018:
Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo
via Nature and various news sources, 07 November 2018: Burning up my news feeds today is a newly-published paper in ...
[Paper] When did Homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul?
via PNAS, 06 August 2018: A new paper in PNAS reviews the evidence of human migration into Southeast Asia and ...
Hominin occupation in China from 2.1 million years ago
Of potential interest for Southeast Asia: 2.1 million-year-old stone tools discovered in China pushes back the dates of hominins outside ...
[Paper] Rare Late Pleistocene-early Holocene human mandibles from the Niah Caves (Sarawak, Borneo)
New paper in PLOS One describing mandibles from the Niah Caves - these were excavated by the Harrissons in 1957. ...
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