Lida Ajer, early modern human remains in island Southeast Asia
In August of last year, Kira Westaway and colleagues published new dating results from Lida Ajer, Sumatra: “An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–...
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Looking at urban archaeology of the ‘lost city’ of Angkor
Annalee Newitz has a great article in Ars Technica that reviews a bunch of recnet archaeological work on the urban complex of Angkor Wat: “How archaeologists...
Shell instead of stone
Discovery News has a short article about Australian archaeologist Katherine Szabo’s analyses of tools made of shell instead of stone in Late Pleistocene cont...
Early Malaysian axes
I know nothing beyond the short press accounts about the 1.83-million-year-old “stone axes” from Malaysia.