Insights into Early Modern Human Activity in the Jungles of Southeast Asia
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/TamPaLIng%20Cave1.jpeg?itok=r6--9QbO"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/TamPaLIng%20Cave1.jpeg?itok=r6--9QbO" width="610" height="334" alt="Tam P? Ling cave. " /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam P? Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team of Flinders University archaeologists and their international colleagues further insights into some of the earliest evidence of?
Homo sapiens? in mainland Southeast Asia.</p>
<p>The site, which has been studied for the past 14 years by a team of Laotian, French, American and Australian scientists, has produced some of the? <a href="https://theconversation.com/bones-the-cave-of-the-monkeys-and-86-000-years-of-history-new-evidence-pushes-back-the-timing-of-human-arrival-in-southeast-asia-206232" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">earliest fossil evidence[/url]? of our direct ancestors in Southeast Asia.</p>
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Excavation of the Tam P? Ling cave. (<a href="
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Flinders University[/url]
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<h2>Excavation of the Tam P? Ling Cave</h2>
<p>Now? a new study, led by PhD candidate Vito Hernandez and Associate Professor Mike Morley from the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, has reconstructed the ground conditions in the cave between 52,000 and 10,000 years ago.</p>
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