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.
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.
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/.
This paper accepted in QSR, systematically reports, and describes ALL the different shrew species (9) from the entire stratigraphic sequence of Gran Dolina (Atapuerca, Spain): Early to Middle Pleistocene. It also discusses the main biochronologic and biogeographic implications of those taxa for Eurasian archaeo-palaeontology.
Co-author Juan Rofes is an Associate Professor of the UP School of Archaeology and head of its Zooarchaeological Laboratory.
My paper titled The Constantino-Cubar Dissensus and Philippine Language Description was tagged as a featured paper at the 5th Linguistic Society International Conference (LSPIC) held from 27-29 April 2023 at the Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology. The full manuscript can be accessed here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374909366_The_Constantino-Cubar_Dissensus_and_Philippine_Language_Description.
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published its World University Rankings for 2023. This year, the University of the Philippines is at the Top 51-100 in the world for Archaeology, and is the only Southeast Asian institution in the top 100 for this subject.
