Earliest known hominin activity in the Philippines by 709 thousand years ago
@article{Ingicco2018EarliestKH,
title={Earliest known hominin activity in the Philippines by 709 thousand years ago},
author={Thomas Ingicco and Gerrit D. van den Bergh and C. Jago-on and Jean‐Jacques Bahain and Mar{\'i}a Gema Chac{\'o}n and Noel Amano and Hubert Forestier and Carlos King and Kathryn Ann Manalo and S{\'e}bastien Nomade and S{\'e}bastien Nomade and Alison Pereira and Marian C. Reyes and Marian C. Reyes and Anne-Marie S{\'e}mah and Qingfeng Shao and Pierre Voinchet and Christophe Falgu{\`e}res and P.C.H. Albers and Marie Lising and Marie Lising and George A. Lyras and Dida Yurnaldi and Pierre Rochette and {\'A}ngel P. Bautista and John de Vos},
journal={Nature},
year={2018},
volume={557},
pages={233 - 237},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:13742336}
}Stone tools and a disarticulated and butchered skeleton of Rhinoceros philippinensis, found in a securely dated stratigraphic context, indicate the presence of an unknown hominin population in the Philippines as early as 709 thousand years ago, which pushes back the proven period of colonization of the Philippines by hundreds of thousands of years.
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