New evidence for Island Dwarfism with implications for Homo floresiensis
A new study published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters demonstrates that primates conform to the theory of "Island ...
Tag: prehistory
News reports and information about prehistoric Southeast Asia, loosely defined as the various stone (Palaeolithic, Neolithic) and metal (Bronze and Iron) ages before the advent of written records, generally up to around the start of the Common Era.
See also: holocene, mesolithic
Amateur archaeologist illuminates past
This man collected some 7,500 stone artefacts over a span of 17 years. I find it quite interesting that the ...
Senatorial candidate calls for preservation of prehistoric cave sites
A Philippine senatorial candidate has called for the investigation of prehistoric caves at Cagayan de Oro in the Philippines.
Archeology helps introduce Vietnamese culture in Europe
A German archaeological team has been working on the O Chua site in Southern Vietnam, which was a salt-production centre, ...
Kuala Berang’s glorious past
An interesting piece about the ancient history of the Malaysian state of Terengganu, from neolithic burials, to the port city ...
The Gold Coast: Suvannabhumi? Lower Myanmar Walled Sites of the First Millennium A.D.
Spring 2007 (Asian Perspectives) - This year's first edition of the journal Asian Perspectives has a paper on Burmese archaeology, ...
Tracing back Malaysia’s stone-age man in Lenggong
Liz Price's feature in the Brunei Times about the archaeolgical finds in Lenggong, Perak, including the Perak Man, Kota Tampan ...
Ancient China’s Back Door: Explorations in the Archaeology of the “Southwestern Barbarians”
China's "Southwest", of course, being what we know as Southeast Asia, particularly mainland Southeast Asia. A public lecture by Dr ...
FSU anthropologist confirms 'Hobbit' indeed a separate species
A new development in the Hobbit debate, paleoneurologist Dean Falk from Florida State University concluded that the Hobbit is indeed ...
Timor cave may reveal how humans reached Australia
22 December 2006 (The Age, Sydney Morning Herald) - It's rare to hear about archaeological information from East Timor (Timor ...
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