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  • New Publication from Mapping Ancient Africa INQUA project
    New Publication from Mapping Ancient Africa INQUA project

    We are pleased to share the latest contribution to the Mapping Ancient Africa Special Issue of Quaternary International. This study provides valuable insights into the past ecological and cultural dynamics at Wonderwerk Cave. New article:…

  • Podcast INQUA 2027 India
    Podcast INQUA 2027 India

    Quaternary is the age when modern recognisable humans started inhabiting this planet. All over the world scientists are engaged in studying various aspects of human evolution. Once every 4 years scientists from all across the…

  • Webinar Series: Climate of the Past 20th Anniversary!
    Webinar Series: Climate of the Past 20th Anniversary!

    Climate of the Past Celebrates 20 Years with Monthly Webinar Series The European Geosciences Union’s open-access, community-driven journal Climate of the Past (CP) is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2025! To mark the occasion, CP…

  • INQUA 2027 Talk Series
    INQUA 2027 Talk Series

    Join the next INQUA talk featuring “Late Quaternary human response to climate change in southern India” presented by Prof. Ravi Korisettar – NIAS Bengaluru, scheduled for Saturday, 31st May at 11:00 AM IST. Don’t miss…

Podcast Homo Erectus Beneath the Waves

New Podcast “Homo Erectus: Beneath the Waves”.

Dive into a fascinating discovery that may rewrite early human history!

Listen now on Anthropology.net and uncover the mystery beneath the waves.

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The Sunda Shelf has been widely exposed during most of the Pleistocene. The area must have played an important role in the dispersal and evolution of species including hominins, however, thus far, fossils were only known from the islands.

Over the past years, an international team has worked on the first vertebrate site on the submerged shelf. The fossils derive from the fill of a submerged valley, which was dated to ~140 ka. The assemblage covers 36 vertebrate species, including Homo erectus. Their presence is also inferred from cut marks and battered ruminant bones.

The assemblage provides a unique window to the late Middle Pleistocene vertebrate community of the former lowland plains and the role of hominins therein. Today, the results of the study are published in ‘Quaternary Environments and Humans’, which is celebrated with this lecture.

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