Oceania and the Pacific

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A lively encounter with death culture…

6pm Public talk by Dr Anna Williams at the Seminar room, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street
7pm Deathly Encounters! at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Event Date: November 2, 2019

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, the Good Death team are putting on a deathly spectacle. Join us in Cambridge for a night devoted to exploring cultures of dying well.

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.