New last ice age findings in Palawan cave

University of the Philippines Diliman ^ | September 12, 2022 | Mariamme D. Jadloc

[SunkenCiv]

Archaeologists from UP Diliman (UPD) and the National Museum, and leaders and members of the indigenous Pala’wan community unearthed new discoveries dating back to the last glacial maximum (LGM) or at the height of the last ice age at Pilanduk Cave in Palawan.

The research Tropical island adaptations in Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum: evidence from Palawan presented new data from the re-excavation of Pilanduk Cave such as “evidence for specialized deer hunting and freshwater mollusc foraging, LGM fossils for the tiger and remains of other native mammal and reptile fauna of Palawan,” UPD archaeologist Janine Ochoa, PhD, said in an UPDate Online email interview...

She said the research also found “new radiocarbon dates that securely place the age of human occupation of Pilanduk Cave at the LGM/Last Ice Age at ca. 20,000-25,000 years ago,” and “evidence for shifting foraging behaviors (ecological and behavioral flexibility) of modern humans occupying changing tropical environments (climate and environmental changes) across ca. 40,000 years on Palawan Island.”

Together with co-principal investigator Ame Garong, PhD, of the National Museum, the research team re-excavated the site in October 2016...

She said, “There has been a need to verify the dates reported by Kress, due to the limited stratigraphic data available for Pilanduk, and the limitations of the radiocarbon dating method at the time of Kress’s excavation in the 1970s particularly for dating mollusc remains.”

[SunkenCiv]

Rolllllll! :^)

[Salamander]

Bloody song’s been stuck in my head all day.

:-\

[SunkenCiv]

That wasn’t a favorite (fact is, I’m not much of a John Lennon fan) but that “UFOs over New York” line always caught my ear. :^)