Gunung Pulai artefacts and fossils at risk from mining
via New Straits Times, 05 January 2020: Gunung Pulai, a limestone mountain in Kedah is at risk to being lost ...
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
Prehistoric pottery and bones found in Krabi
via The Nation, 29 December 2019: Ceramic and bone fragments found in Krabi province.
Archaeologists find prehistoric site in Wondama Bay, Papua
via Tempo, 14 November 2019: Among the finds is a mortar made from andesite. Article is in Bahasa Indonesia.
[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 ...
Humans lived in Niah Caves 100,000 years ago
via Sarawak Tribune, 29 September 2019: Part of last week's International Conference on Archaeology, Prof. Darren Curnoe from Griffith University ...
[Paper] Somewhere beyond the sea: Human cranial remains from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Alor Island, Indonesia) provide insights on Late Pleistocene peopling of Island Southeast Asia
via the Journal of Human Evolution, September 2019: A new paper in JHE reports the discovery of human remains from ...
In Southeast Asia, Ancient Humans Mated With at Least 4 Other Species
via Inverse, 30 July 2019: Explaining the results of a new paper in PNAS about genetic mixing of modern humans ...
The story of Homo Luzonensis
via ABS-CBN News (2019, no date given): A long feature about the discovery and implications of the Homo luzonensis discovery ...
Archaeologists discover prehistoric relics inside northern Vietnam caves
via VN Express, 18 June 2019: Prehistoric artefacts discovered in Vietnam's Bac Kan Province.
An Khe archeological discoveries shock historians
via Viet Nam Net, 08 April 2019: Joint Vietnamese and Russian archaeological investigation in Gia Lai province reveals traces of ...
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