[Paper] A Middle Pleistocene Denisovan molar from the Annamite Chain of northern Laos
via Nature Communications, 17 May 2022: A discovery of an ancient tooth in Laos, with suggestions that it belonged to ...
Tag: hominid
Any member of the ‘Great Apes’ (Hominidae), including humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and extinct species.
Human ‘hobbit’ ancestor may be hiding in Indonesia, new controversial book claims
via Live Science, 25 April 2022: A new book Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a ...
[Paper] No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival
via PNAS, 18 May 2021: A new paper debunks the idea that the arrival of ancient humans caused mass extinctions ...
[Paper] Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture
via Nature Ecology and Evolution, 22 March 2021: Another genetics paper that suggests that human populations in Southeast Asia interbred ...
[Paper] Pleistocene Water Crossings and Adaptive Flexibility Within the Homo Genus
via Journal of Archaeological Research, 14 September 2020: Interesting paper reviewing water crossings of hominids during the Pleistocene, with a ...
[Paper] Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia
via Nature, 07 October 2020: A study of ancient environments by Louys and Roberts showw how the expansion and contraction ...
International Conference on Homo luzonensis and the Hominin Record of Southeast Asia
The University of the Philippines – Archaeological Studies Program with the support from the University of the Philippines System, the ...
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 ...
Studies of fossil teeth reveal another Pleistocene ape species from Southeast Asia
via Phys.org, 09 April 2019: Another ancient hominid species was discovered in Indonesia earlier this month, described in another paper ...
Hominin occupation in China from 2.1 million years ago
Of potential interest for Southeast Asia: 2.1 million-year-old stone tools discovered in China pushes back the dates of hominins outside ...
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