A tiger foot bone recovered during the October 2016 excavation.Photo by Ochoa
Posted on 09/27/2022 8:56:44 AM PDT by 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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at upd.edu.ph ...
A tiger foot bone recovered during the October 2016 excavation.Photo by Ochoa
Glacial Maximum?
Did they find the smoke stacks that caused global warming?
How could there be an “ice age” without climate change. Scientist today claim only man can change the earth’s climate. /s
WOWEEEEE!!!! Thanks for posting.
Foot bone from a tiger, no doubt.
from the article: “The archaeological work in Pilanduk Cave would not have been possible without the previous research of Jonathan Kress, who led the first excavation of the site in 1970. Jonathan passed away on 6 August 2022. The Pilanduk and Ille Cave teams remember him most fondly, especially for his joie de vivre and enthusiasm for field work, stone tools, and molluscs. He would share and recall the local names of various shell taxa, which were taught to him by the indigenous team he worked with. Engaging with students was important for him and he regaled us with exciting and adventurous stories about Palawan in the 1970s. We remember Jonathan as gentle, kind, patient, and full of wisdom.”
I try to believe that most scientists are like this. They’re NOT folks who can watch suffering unmoved, or who have no faith in a deity.
Anybody that wants their picture taken for the magazine article better get here early. They'll start taking pictures at 630 AM tomorrow.
“Last Ice Age at ca. 20,000-25,000 years ago,”
But somehow we have caused the climate to severely change in the last 100 years.
Right.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
I had been deployed to the PI a few times way back in the day for training, but I don’t think I ever went to Palawan.
I admit to my mind jumping to the PI under an ice sheet when I read the title. Doh.
The interglacial before this last ice age was much hotter than ours is now.
Note how Palawan is either part off the mainland or only separated by a river sized sliver of water.
More people live on the Island of Java than all of Russia, the largest country in the world..
I’m such an old timer here. I distinctly remember you posting this back in the day. I shared my extra large ice age terrain/sea level map with you, or vice versus, then!
Yup. I kept and used that map for years, I really liked it. I've lost it now though.
“particularly for dating mollusc remains.”
Reminds me of Slick Willy’s comment “That’s one good looking mummy”
[oh? it’s not THAT kind of dating?]
Mollusc told me there'd be days like these.
Strange days indeed.
Most peculiar, mollusc.
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