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Department of Archaeology

 
When: 
Monday, 2 December, 2019 - 16:00 to 17:00
Event speaker: 
Florent Détroit

A new species of hominin, Homo luzonensis, was recently described from an assemblage of thirteen fossil elements discovered in Callao Cave (Northern Luzon, The Philippines). In 2010, the analysis of a third metatarsal discovered in 2007 and directly dated to a minimum age of 67 thousand years ago, suggested it belonged to the genus Homo, but to which species was unclear. Twelve additional hominin elements representing at least three individuals were discovered in 2011 and 2015 in the same stratigraphic layer than the metatarsal. In this presentation, we aim at showing that altogether, these specimens display a combination of primitive (i.e. Australopithecus-like) and derived (i.e. Homo sapiens-like) morphological features that is different to that of other species in the genus Homo, including Homo floresiensis and Homo sapiens, warrenting their attribution to a new species, Homo luzonensis.

Contact name: 
Dylan Gaffney
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Event location: 
Cripps Court lecture theatre (1 Chesterton Rd), Magdalene College, Cambridge
Geographical areas: 
Oceania and the Pacific
Southeast Asia
Subjects: 
Archaeology
Biological Anthropology
Themes: 
Human Evolutionary Studies
Research Expertise / Fields of study: 
Osteoarchaeology
Paleoanthropology
Human Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology
Human Evolution
Periods of interest: 
Palaeolithic/Mesolithic
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