Evidence of Late Pleistocene human colonization of isolated islands beyond Wallace's Line

Jena, Germany (SPX) May 01, 2020

A new article published in Nature Communications applies stable isotope analysis to a collection of fossil human teeth from the islands of Timor and Alor in Wallacea to study the ecological adaptations of the earliest members of our species to reach this isolated part of the world. Because the Wallacean islands are considered extreme, resource poor settings, archaeologists believed that early se