April
30
/ 2020
How is our species unique compared to other hominins? What did Late Pleistocene humans have that their neighbors lacked? They obviously interacted, but Homo sapiens survived when others could not. A new study shows evidence that a big plus for the survival of Late Pleistocene humans was their flexibility. The Wallacean islands are considered extreme, resource poor settings, so archaeologists believed that early seafaring populations would have moved rapidly through this region without establishing permanent communities. So how do they explain the remains of Late Pleistocene humans in this isolated area of the world? Could the prehistoric humans really have colonized lands beyond Wallace’s Line in Southeast Asia? A new article published in Nature Communications applies stable isotope analysis to
