Testing the waters: Plant working and seafaring in Pleistocene Wallacea

2025/02/08 by Riczar Fuentes, Alfred Pawlik · 2 voices
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105020

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Citations

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• Archaeology and the Austronesian expansion: where are we now?
• Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications

Discussions

• Ateneo de Manila researchers are pointing to the large evidence of Pleistocene sea navigation in Wallacea (Island SE Asia). For years archaeologists thought early migrations were only possible due to [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
• 🧪Interesting! Fuentes & Pawlik (2025) ask were humans building boats in SE Asia 44,000 years ago. They suggest that intentional boat-building (as opposed to bamboo rafts/dugout canoes) for seafaring [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]