Modern humans can now look their recently discovered relative, Homo floresiensis, in the face thanks to a new reconstruction unveiled at an archaeological conference in Australia. This species of early human was first identified in 2003 when researchers led by Professor Mike Morwood and Thomas Sutikna found the remains of nine individuals in Liang Bua, [...]
Teouma
When were the South Sea Islands first inhabited? The discovery by Matthew Spriggs and Stuart Bedford of a remarkable cemetery, with nearly 100 burials and a superb collection of pots, has thrown new light on the earliest population of this remote area.
Java: The Gua Made green masks
About ten years ago a collector of ancient Indonesian art contacted my husband and me to ask our opinion on a group of masks cast in an odd green metal in his possession. Some of these masks, he said, had been recovered from an underground temple in a remote site called Gua Made, north of [...]
Volcanic Pleistocene Wipeout
Volcanic ash from the Eyjafjallajokull eruption in Iceland caused airline havoc in April 2010, but the far bigger Toba volcanic eruption that occurred on the Indonesian island of Sumatra 74,000 years ago nearly wiped out human life in Asia. Now, an international multidisciplinary research team, led by Oxford University in collaboration with Indian institutions, is [...]
Shell Tools Rewrite Australasian Prehistory
Sophisticated stone tools challenge previous assumptions about Australian tool-making
Human ‘Hobbit’ Declared New Species
The controversial find of ‘Hobbit like’ skeleton, has concluded with new hominid species being declared
Flores, Indonesia
A report on the shock discovery of a new minature species of human, homo floresiensis, who lived on the island of Flores until 10,000 BC
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