30,000-year-old jawbone records tough diet in Pleistocene Southeast Asia
In Summary : Life wasn't easy for the first humans to settle in the islands of Southeast Asia. The rain forest was a completely new e...
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In Summary :
Life wasn't easy for the first humans to settle in the islands of Southeast Asia. The rain forest was a completely new environment for people in the Late Pleistocene, so the learning curve was probably steep. A 28,000-year-old jawbone from Niah Cave in northeast Borneo reveals that Pleistocene people who first arrived there ate a tough diet. The mandible belonged to a person who lived and died in Borneo nearly 10,000 years before the end of the last Ice Age, about 28,000-to-30,000 years ago, according to uranium-series dating (there wasn't enough collagen left in the bone for radiocarbon dating). It's small, but it's also unusually thick. Even without any other bones, the jaw tells us two important things about the Southeast Asians of the Pleistocene. [...]
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Life wasn't easy for the first humans to settle in the islands of Southeast Asia. The rain forest was a completely new environment for people in the Late Pleistocene, so the learning curve was probably steep. A 28,000-year-old jawbone from Niah Cave in northeast Borneo reveals that Pleistocene people who first arrived there ate a tough diet. The mandible belonged to a person who lived and died in Borneo nearly 10,000 years before the end of the last Ice Age, about 28,000-to-30,000 years ago, according to uranium-series dating (there wasn't enough collagen left in the bone for radiocarbon dating). It's small, but it's also unusually thick. Even without any other bones, the jaw tells us two important things about the Southeast Asians of the Pleistocene. [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1322097
