News Archaeology 04 May 2018
Find pushes back hominin arrival in the Philippines seven hundred thousand years
The discovery of stone tools near the skeleton of a long-extinct rhinoceros has pushed back evidence for hominin settlement in the Philippines by hundreds of thousands of years – long before the presence of Homo sapiens.
In a paper in the journal Nature, archaeologists led by Thomas Ingicco of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, detail the results of recent excavations at a site called Kalinga in the Cagayan Valley of northern Luzon.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/find-pushes-back-hominin-arrival-in-the-philippines-seven-hundred-thousand-years
