30,000-year-old jawbone records tough diet in Pleistocene Southeast Asia

Enlarge / Two human mandibles from Niah Caves in Borneo; the top jaw is 30,000 years old, and the bottom jaw 11,000 years old. (credit: Darren Curnoe) Life wasn’t easy for the first humans to settle in the islands of Southeast Asia. The rain forest was a completely new environment for people in the Late […]