New Paper: Palaeoecological Interactions and Owl Roosting at Alor Island, Eastern Indonesia
We report on tetrapod (Reptilia, Amphibia, Mammalia, Aves) vertebrates recovered during excavations at Tron Bon Lei rockshelter on the south ...
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
Evidence of fire-making in Liang Bua
A microstratigraphic study of the Hobbit cave, Liang Bua, reveals the use of fire between 41,000 and 24,000 years ago. ...
Reassessing the Deep Skull from Niah
A study of the Deep Skull from Niah has some new interpretations - female, not male;and likely originating from East ...
Another Hobbit paper argues against Down Syndrome theory
While the excitement was brewing over the discovery of 700,000-year-old hobbit bones in Flores, another paper published at the same ...
Possible Hobbit ancestors found in Flores, dating 700,000 years
A new paper out in Nature last month detail the find of tiny hominid bones in Flores, home of H. ...
Hobbits older than expected
A new paper in Nature has revised the dates of the Hobbit, once thought to be 12,000 years old, to ...
Stone tools push the human occupation of Sulawesi back by 60,000 years
The discovery of stone tools from Sulawesi date to 118,000 years ago - possibly by the so-called hobbits - predate ...
Oldest Hoabinhian site found in Yunnan
A new paper in Quaternary International discusses the Xiaodong rock shelter in Yunnan, the oldest Hoabinhian site to date. The ...
Red Deer Cave bones in Southwest China raises new questions about human origins
A recent study published in PLOS One analyses the bones from the Red Deer Cave of Yunnan province and suggests ...
Teeth study of H. floresiensis unlike any other, suggests new species
A new study on the tooth morphology of Homo floresiensis suggests that they may be not be a group deformed ...
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