Earliest known hominin activity in the Philippines by 709 thousand years ago
Very exciting news out of the Philippines today, a paper published in Nature describes the discovery of stone tools and ...
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
A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi
A new paper on PLOS One describes stone tools finds from the rock shelter of Leang Burung in Sulawesi, dating ...
Discovery of world’s oldest funerary fish hooks by ANU archaeologists
via Heritage Daily, 12 December 2017: 12,000-year-old fish hooks found in a burial in Alor Island, Indonesia. Archaeologists from the ...
New Paper: Rock art and the colonisation of Southeast Asia
Over the past decade, archaeologists have been able to directly date rock art, particularly in Island Southeast Asia at sites ...
Discovery: Australia’s oldest coastal aboriginal site
The discovery of archaeological remains in Boodie Cave on Barrow Island, in northwestern Australia goes back to 50,000 years and ...
[Paper] What plants might potentially have been used in the forests of prehistoric Southeast Asia?
A new paper by Xhauflair et al. examines plant exploitation in Palawan, Philippins today and its potential for understanding plant ...
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[Book] New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory (Terra Australis 45)
A new book from ANU Press - the ebook is free! ‘This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, ...
Facial reconstruction of a woman from Pleistocene Thailand
A new paper from Antiquity presents a facial reconstruction of a woman found in Tham Lod, a Pleistocene site in ...
Signs of early symbolic behaviour found in Indonesia
From the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, a new paper highlights discoveries excavated in Sulawesi from 30,000 years ...
First Contact: Impact of Pleistocene Hominins on Island Ecosystems Conference
Readers in Australia may be interested in this free conference in Canberra on Pleistocene Hominins in Island Ecosystems - Southeast ...
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