Orangutans venture out of the rainforest and into the Anthropocene

SN Spehar, D Sheil, T Harrison, J Louys… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Conservation benefits from understanding how adaptability and threat interact to determine
a taxon's vulnerability. Recognizing how interactions with humans have shaped taxa such …

[HTML][HTML] Forty-thousand years of maritime subsistence near a changing shoreline on Alor Island (Indonesia)

S Kealy, S O'Connor, DM Sari, C Shipton… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
We report archaeological findings from a significant new cave site on Alor Island, Indonesia,
with an in situ basal date of 40,208–38,454 cal BP. Twenty thousand years older than the …

Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands

R Rozzi, MV Lomolino, AAE van der Geer, D Silvestro… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Abrupt onset of intensive human occupation 44,000 years ago on the threshold of Sahul

C Shipton, MW Morley, S Kealy, K Norman… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Archaeological evidence attests multiple early dispersals of Homo sapiens out of Africa, but
genetic evidence points to the primacy of a single dispersal 70-40 ka. Laili in Timor-Leste is …

[HTML][HTML] Least-cost pathway models indicate northern human dispersal from Sunda to Sahul

S Kealy, J Louys, S O'Connor - Journal of human evolution, 2018 - Elsevier
Archaeological records from Australia provide the earliest, indirect evidence for maritime
crossings by early modern humans, as the islands to the north-west of the continent …

No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

J Louys, TJ Braje, CH Chang, R Cosgrove… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
The arrival of modern humans into previously unoccupied island ecosystems is closely
linked to widespread extinction, and a key reason cited for Pleistocene megafauna …

[HTML][HTML] Islands on the edge: 42,000-year-old occupation of the Tanimbar islands and its implications for the Sunda-Sahul early human migration discourse

HAF Kaharudin, S O'Connor, S Kealy… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tanimbar is one of the main island groups in Wallacea included in Birdsell's early human
migration routes from Sunda to Sahul, situated at the easternmost end of south Wallacea on …

The biogeographic threshold of Wallacea in human evolution

C Shipton, S O'Connor, S Kealy - Quaternary International, 2021 - Elsevier
The Wallacean archipelago between the Indian and Pacific Oceans is a critical
biogeographic boundary for all kinds of animals, from butterflies to birds. Humans are no …

[HTML][HTML] Big questions for small animals. Taphonomic analysis of small vertebrates in Matja Kuru 2 (Timor-Leste) during the late pleistocene

SCS Carro, C Raymond, V Weisbecker… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The analysis of subsistence practices in the Lesser Sunda Islands (from Bali in the west to
Wetar and Timor to the east) provides data to interpret anatomically modern humans' …

[LIBRO][B] Handbook of archaeological sciences

AM Pollard, RA Armitage, CA Makarewicz - 2023 - books.google.com
HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES A modern and comprehensive
introduction to methods and techniques in archaeology In the newly revised Second Edition …