Ref ID:	22526
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Pawlik, Alfred F. Piper, Philip J. Mijares, Armand Salvador B.
Title:	Modern humans in the Philippines: colonization, subsistence and new insights into behavioural complexity
Date:	2014
Source:	Southern Asia, Australia, and the search for human origins
Place of Publication:	New York
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Abstract:	Ongoing research in the Philippines is producing important new insights into the Palaeolithic of Island Southeast Asia. The recent discovery of the Callao 3rd metatarsal in northern Luzon, which has been provisionally identified as a small bodied Homo sapiens and dated to 67 ka, suggests an earlier colonization of Island Southeast Asia by our species than previously considered. Landscape reconstructions are aiding in building a better understanding of how people adapted to the new and varied environments they encountered across the region, and recent lithic use wear analyses are demonstrating that tool technologies and hence human behaviour was more complex than had been previously envisaged. Wear traces and residues on unretouched and morphologically less characteristic flaked artefacts provided evidence for hafting and the use of adhesives showing that they could have served as hafted armatures of multicomponent tools.
Date Created:	6/29/2015
Editors:	Dennell, Robin