Archaeological Studies Program News Today

Filipino archaeologist helps rewrite human history in Southeast Asia

NEW findings from a cave in northern Laos add to a growing body of evidence that modern humans arrived in Southeast Asia over 80,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought. The groundbreaking findings were recently published in the prestigious journal Nature.

New findings from a cave in northern Laos add to a growing body of evidence that modern humans arrived in Southeast Asia over 80,000 years ago, tens of

Two professors have challenged former University of the Philippines Diliman chancellor Fidel Nemenzo, who is vying for his second term as head of the UP’s flagship campus in Quezon City.

Evidence from the last ice age and the Holocene period unearthed in Palawan’s Pilanduk Cave brings answers and more questions about our past.

TUGUEGARAO CITY, May 5 (PIA) — The Cagayan Museum and Historical Research Center will host a free month-long webinar series focusing on heritage conservation and management, starting this May 18 up to August 24, 2021. According to the museum’s head curator, Niño Kevin D. Baclig,...

Published April 23, 2021, 11:02 PM Giant cloud rat species weighing about a kilogram once roamed the Philippines based on the discovery of a team of scientists from the University of the Philippines (UP), National Museum of the Philippines (NMP), and the US Field Museum of Natural History. In a news posted on the UP website on Friday, April 23, the scientists based their findings on the fossilized remains of the three extinct giant cloud rat species, locally known as “buot” or “bugkun,”...

Patricia Cabrera Rats, by and large, arent terribly popular animals. But while you dont want an infestation of common black rats living in your house, their distant cousins in the Philippines are downright cuddly. These "giant cloud rats" live in the treetops of misty mountain forests, and they fill an ecological role occupied by squirrels in the US. And, it turns out, we have new evidence that theyve been living in the Philippines for a long time—scientists have discovered the fossils of thr...

University of the Philippines (up.edu.ph) Belmonte on Tuesday said that “academic freedom will always be protected and upheld” in her city as she acknowledged its importance following her previous teaching career in the university. “I was a lecturer at the UP before and I know how important academic freedom is in an educational institution,” the mayor said in a statement. “True learning will only happen in an environment where there is a free discourse of ideas by all members of the c...