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New Publication: ‘Mixed ancestry of Europeans who settled Iceland and Greenland: 3D geometric-morphometric analyses of cranial base shape’ by Kimberly A. Plomp, Keith Dobney, Hildur Gestsdóttir and Mark Collard

October 19, 2023

Published in Antiquity, this paper reports that Greenlandic settlers during the early medieval period had a mix of British, Irish, and Scandinavian ancestries. This finding is based on 3D-shape analyses of human crania from Scandinavia, Britain, Ireland, and a Norse colony in Greenland.

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New Publication: 'Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain)' by Diego Garate et al

October 18, 2023

Can small vertebrates tell us something about Palaeolithic rock art?

To know the answer, you have to read the contribution of Juan Rofes (Associate professor of UPSA) to this fantastic paper published in Scientific Reports, the “younger sibling” of Nature. Besides, you will learn about the complexity of the artistic production inside caves during the Upper Palaeolithic. There is...

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Research Activities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

October 2, 2023

I attended the Third Critical Island Studies Conference with the theme "Islands and Commodities" last 2 October 2023 at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada at Yogyakarta, Indonesia. More information on the conference may be found in their official website: https://cis.fib.ugm.ac.id/ugmcon/.

It was held back to back with the 11th Literary Studies Conference with the theme "Geopolitics & Literature: Reimagining The Past, Present, & Future" from 3-4 October 2023 at Universitas Sanata Dharma in the same city. In this conference, I presented my paper...

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Podcast: Interview with Dr. Armand Salvador Mijares, Indo-Pacific Impact Awardee (Global Australian Awards 2023)

September 14, 2023

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Advance.org published its interview with UP School of Archaeology's Dr. Armand Salvador Mijares, as part of its celebration of Global Australian Awards' 2023 GameChangers. Dr. Mijares was awarded the Indo-Pacific Impact Award, and was a finalist for Global Australian of the Year.

Listen to the motivations and challenges of Dr. Mijares here.

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Dr. Mijares receives the Indo-Pacific Impact Award (Global Australian Awards in 2023)

September 14, 2023

Dr. Armand Salvador Mijares receives the Indo-Pacific Impact Award for the 2023 Global Australian Awards.

The Global Australian Awards recognizes UP School of Archaeology's Dr. Armand Mijares' remarkable contribution to archaeology in the Indo-Pacific region and globally, specifically his role in the discovery of a new human-related species in the Philippines.

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Plenary on Historical Linguistics in the Philippines at 15PLC

August 23, 2023

The 15th Philippine Linguistics Congress (15PLC) was held from 23-25 August 2023 at the NISMED Auditorium, University of the Philippines Diliman. Maria Kristina S. Gallego, Honeylet Dumoran, and myself gave a plenary lecture titled Philippine historical and comparative linguistics from below on the first day of the conference. More details on the conference can be found in the official website https://15plc.webflow.io/.

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Research paper presented in the 5th International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (ICCBEI 2023)!

July 21, 2023
Solis, K., Quinay, P. E., Colegio, K.D., Evaluation of Interoperability By Quantifying Data Integrity in the Integration of BIM and Structural Analysis for Multiple Levels of Development, 5th International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (ICCBEI 2023), July 19-21, 2023, Bangkok, Thailand. Read more about Research paper presented in the 5th International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (ICCBEI 2023)!