When did Homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul?

JF O'Connell, J Allen, MAJ Williams… - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - pnas.org
Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens, AMH) began spreading across Eurasia from
Africa and adjacent Southwest Asia about 50,000–55,000 years ago (ca. 50–55 ka). Some …

Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years

J Galway‐Witham, J Cole… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution
over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by …

[ספר][B] Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago: revised edition

P Bellwood - 2007‏ - library.oapen.org
Since its publication in 1985, Peter Bellwood's Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
has been hailed as the sole authoritative work on the subject by the leading expert in the …

Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident

MI Bird, SA Condie, S o'Connor, D o'Grady… - Scientific Reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
The first peopling of Sahul (Australia, New Guinea and the Aru Islands joined at lower sea
levels) by anatomically modern humans required multiple maritime crossings through …

Homofloresiensis-like fossils from the early Middle Pleistocene of Flores

GD Van den Bergh, Y Kaifu, I Kurniawan, RT Kono… - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
The evolutionary origin of Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin species previously
known only by skeletal remains from Liang Bua in western Flores, Indonesia, has been …

Earliest hominin occupation of Sulawesi, Indonesia

GD Van den Bergh, B Li, A Brumm, R Grün, D Yurnaldi… - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
Sulawesi is the largest and oldest island within Wallacea, a vast zone of oceanic islands
separating continental Asia from the Pleistocene landmass of Australia and Papua (Sahul) …

An integrated perspective on the Austronesian diaspora: the switch from cereal agriculture to maritime foraging in the colonisation of Island Southeast Asia

D Bulbeck - Australian Archaeology, 2008‏ - Taylor & Francis
This paper reviews the archaeological evidence for maritime interaction spheres in Island
Southeast Asia during the Neolithic and preceding millennia. It accepts that cereal …

The Liang Bua faunal remains: a 95 k. yr. sequence from Flores, East Indonesia

GD Van Den Bergh, HJM Meijer, RD Awe… - Journal of human …, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Excavations at Liang Bua, a limestone cave on the island of Flores, East Indonesia, have
yielded a well-dated archaeological and faunal sequence spanning the last 95k. yr., major …

Hominin dispersal and settlement east of Huxley's Line: The role of sea level changes, island size, and subsistence behavior

S O'connor, J Louys, S Kealy… - Current …, 2017‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
The thousands of islands east of Huxley's Line have never formed a single land mass or
been connected to Sunda or Sahul. The earliest records of hominins in this area are stone …

The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives

RW Dennell, J Louys, HJ O'Regan… - Quaternary Science …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The finding of archaeological evidence predating 1 Ma and a small hominin species (Homo
floresiensis) on Flores, Indonesia, has stimulated much research on its origins and ancestry …