Abstract Two archaeological sites, Tham Lod and Ban Rai rockshelters, in highland Pang
Mapha, Mae Hong Son Province in northwestern Thailand have yielded several late …

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 …

Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

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 …

Southeast Asia has emerged as an important region for understanding hominin and
mammalian migrations and extinctions. High-profile discoveries have shown that Southeast …

The largest ever primate and one of the largest of the southeast Asian megafauna,
Gigantopithecus blacki, persisted in China from about 2.0 million years until the late middle …

Pleistocene water crossings, long thought to be an innovation of Homo sapiens, may extend
beyond our species to encompass Middle and Early Pleistocene Homo. However, it remains …

The crossing of the Wallacean islands and settlement of Sahul by modern humans over
50,000 years ago, represents the earliest successful seafaring of our species anywhere in …

The late Pleistocene settlement of highland settings in mainland Southeast Asia by Homo
sapiens has challenged our species's ability to occupy mountainous landscapes that acted …

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 …