Rhino fossil rewrites the earliest human history of the Philippines
May 2, 2018 4.23pm EDT
A dig in Luzon, an island in the northern Philippines, has uncovered fossils of an “Ice Age†rhinoceros that was butchered around 700,000 years ago. It’s the first evidence demonstrating the presence of archaic humans in the Philippines.
This exciting new finding, published today in Nature, suggests that early hominins were more widespread than previously thought in Wallacea – the vast network of islands located east of continental Eurasia.
https://theconversation.com/rhino-fossil-rewrites-the-earliest-human-history-of-the-philippines-95879
