Archaeological research in the Philippines has significantly intensified over the past 20
years and is producing useful insights into the Prehistory of this diverse archipelago that is of …

A large part of our material culture is made of organic materials, and this was likely the case
also during prehistory. Amongst this prehistoric organic material culture are textiles and …

Since Darwin, studies of human evolution have tended to give primacy to open 'savannah'
environments as the ecological cradle of our lineage, with dense tropical forests cast as …

Pleistocene water crossings, long thought to be an innovation of Homo sapiens, may extend
beyond our species to encompass Middle and Early Pleistocene Homo. However, it remains …

Archaeological research in the Philippines has produced a timeline of currently over
700,000 years of human occupation. However, while an initial presence of early hominins …

Expedient lithic technology has been described as unchanging and without or very limited
presence of formal tool types. However, this premise seems to limit the discussion on …

The environmental extremes of the Last Glacial Maximum and the subsequent warming and
sea-level rise into the Holocene had profound implications for human behavior across much …

Abstract While the “Movius Line” may no longer represent a valid cultural division between
Early and Middle Pleistocene hominins in South and Southeast Asia, it still offers a useful …

In this paper, we review the current Philippine archaeological record between c. 14,000 and
4000 cal. bp in the context of our developing understanding of human adaptation to post …

The existence of an organic or plant-based technology during the Late Pleistocene and
Early Holocene is an ongoing debate in Island Southeast Asia (ISEA). Evidence of plant …