Penang Hill: Where Ancient Rainforests Meet Colonial History
via The Star, 26 October 2023: Penang Hill, also known as Bukit Bendera, is not just a tourist attraction but ...
Tag: rainforest
Type of forest characterised by evergreen trees and high rainfall.
[Paper] Peopling island rainforests: global trends from the Early Pleistocene to the Late Holocene
via World Archaeology, 13 October 2022: An overview of how humans populated rainforests during the Pleistocene. The data has a ...
[Paper] Homo sapiens lithic technology and microlithization in the South Asian rainforest at Kitulgala Beli-lena (c. 45 – 8,000 years ago)
via PLOS One, 13 October 2022: Stone and bone tools from pleistocene Sri Lanka.
[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 ...
[Paper] Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics
via Science Advances, 12 June 2020: New discoveries from Sri Lanka - evidence for the oldest bow and arrow technology ...
Creation of a network on the theme “Prehistoric Toolkits and Technologies in the Tropics”
Passing on a message from Dr. Hermine Xauflair on a Facebook group, conference session and publication on Prehistoric Toolkits and ...
[Paper] Exploitation and utilization of tropical rainforests indicated in dental calculus of ancient Oceanic Lapita culture colonists
via Nature Human Behaviour, 20 January 2020: New paper in Nature Human Behavior indicates that people were transporting and growing ...
Marketing Sarawak’s cultural heritage tourism
via New Sarawak Tribune, 24 December 2019: First of a three-part story about the potential for cultural heritage tourism in ...
[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 ...
Plastic pioneers: Hominin biogeography east of the Movius Line during the Pleistocene
via Archaeological Research in Asia, 25 January 2019: A new paper by Roberts and Amano looking at human occupation of ...
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