Readers in Australia may be interested in this free conference in Canberra on Pleistocene Hominins in Island Ecosystems – Southeast Asia is well represented.
Date: April 26 2017
Venue: Australian National University, ANU Commons Function Centre
Info: Contact Juliet Meyer, juliet.meyer@anu.edu.au
Islands represent unique ecosystems which are highly vulnerable to environmental disturbances, invasions, and natural disasters. Evidence of Pleistocene hominins on islands, however, is rare and largely restricted to a few islands in East and Southeast Asia, California, and the Mediterranean. This conference day will bring together researchers from around the world, specialising on the archaeological and palaeontological records of islands, to compare chronologies of hominin arrival, available technologies, ecological and geological events, and the records of extinctions. It will address the fundamental question of whether island overkill is a phenomenon restricted to post-Neolithic populations, or has always been a characteristic impact of our species.
