A5023892382- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Philippine History and Culture
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Marine animal studies overview
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Climate change and permafrost
- Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Marine and Coastal Research
- Community Health and Development
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Landslides and related hazards
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
National Museum of the Philippines
2009-2023
University of the Philippines System
2003-2023
University of the Philippines Diliman
2010-2022
University College Dublin
2009
Abstract The 18 extant members of the Tribe Phloeomyini, “cloud rats,” constitute an endemic Philippine radiation arboreal herbivores that range in size from ca. g to 2.7 kg, most occurring cloud forest above 1,200 m elevation. Although calibrated phylogenies indicate Phloeomyini is estimated have begun diversifying within Philippines by 10–11 million years ago, no extinct fossil species been described, severely limiting our understanding this distinctive radiation. Our studies and subfossil...
The recently discovered human remains from Callao Cave, northern Luzon, Philippines securely date the migration of hominins into to ca. 70 kya (thousands years ago). direct route reach Luzon Asian mainland is via Borneo, Palawan, through Mindoro and Luzon. Our research focuses on Island as a potential stepping stone main Philippine Archipelago. While Palawan have produced evidence for early occupation, no systematic prehistory has been conducted until now. We report recent archaeological...
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"Pygmy populations" are recognized in several places over the world, especially Western Africa and Southeast Asia (Philippine "negritos," for instance). Broadly defined as "small-bodied Homo sapiens" (compared with neighboring populations), their origins nature of processes involved maintenance phenotype time highly debated. Major results have been recently obtained from population genetics on present-day negrito populations, but evolutionary history remains largely unresolved. We present...
Excavations in Callao Cave, the lowland (ca. 85 m elevation) Cagayan River Valley of northeastern Luzon, Philippines, have produced first fossils any endemic genera Philippine murid rodents. Three dentaries dated to Late Pleistocene, between ca. 50,000 and 68,000 BP, are referred Batomys Apomys; former is a member “Phloeomys Division” murids, latter “Chrotomys Division,” also Philippines. currently known from five extant species Mindanao, Dinagat islands; two Luzon differ size dental...
Soil micromorphology was among the approaches used to explore site formation in two cave sites northern Luzon: Eme and Dalan Serkot Caves. Interplay of biogenic, sedimentary, anthropogenic processes worked reworked archaeological sediments at both sites. Cave found be highly bioturbated by faunal activities shrink-swell processes, caution is needed interpreting its contexts. However, thin section study revealed wood ash possible burnt soil fragments, along with charcoal, attesting later...
In the northern Philippines, interaction between foragers of Peuffffablanca cave sites and early Austronesian farmers Cagayan Valley (northern Luzon) was established by at least 3500 years ago. Farmers exchanged earthenware pottery, clay earrings, spindle whorls shell beads with foragers, possibly for forest products. This exchange, however, did not, on present evidence, include cereal-based foods such as rice. The botanical evidence from shows a heavy reliance wild arboreal food sources.
This paper presents some preliminary results from a research project designed to identify, for the first time, prehistoric occupation sites in Mindoro Occidental, Philippines. The aim of was identify cave and rockshelter with potential contain undisturbed Pleistocene deposits thus prospect enhance knowledge about earliest settlement history modern humans Southeast Asia. Over course number previously unknown have been recorded karst limestone regions on islands Ilin. test excavations indicate...
AbstractThe persisterne of a simple litbic technology east the so-called Movius Line has long evoked interest prehistorians. Two plausible hypotheses bave been presented. The first involves availability in Southeast Asia wooden materials such as bamboo, which can easily be shaped into tools. second concerns predominarne coarse-grained raw (e.g. andesite), are difftcult to shape formal This study took two-stage approach test hypotheses. An experimental using andesite and chert flakes on...
Three cave sites in the Penablanca limestone area of northeastern Luzon were excavated 2003 order to understand transition from Upper Paleolithic Neolithic cultures. The excavations Eme, Callao and Dalan Serkot Caves showed a lower flake tool assemblage (25,000-6000 BP) an upper ceramic with continuing tools (2000 BP). also differential usage caves as burial or frequentation during Period. Morphological petrographic analysis earthenware sherds demonstrates affinity pottery riverbank Cagayan...
"Pygmy populations" are recognized in several places over the world, especially Western Africa and Southeast Asia (Philippine "negritos," for instance). Broadly defined as "small-bodied Homo sapiens" (compared with neighboring populations), their origins nature of processes involved maintenance phenotype time highly debated. Major results have been recently obtained from population genetics on present-day negrito populations, but evolutionary history remains largely unresolved. We present...