Armand salvador mijares biography
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Prof Armand Salvador B. Mijares is a renowned archaeologist, whose discoveries have led to the identification of a new human-related species.
A Professor of Archaeology at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, Armand specialises in early human migration from Africa to Southeast Asia. He gained global recognition in 2019 after he and his team discovered the bones of two adults and a child during multiple archaeological digs in Callao Cave, from a previously unknown human-related species now called Homo luzonensis. Through uranium-series dating, the bones were found to be 50,000 to 67,000 years old – making them the earliest human remains to be discovered in the Philippines.
Armand’s passion for archaeology began in the 1990s, when he started working at the National Museum of the Philippines, and then completed his Diploma in Archaeology at the University of the Philippines-Diliman’s newly established Archaeological Studies Program. He went on to complete further postgraduate studies in the USA, on a Fulbright Scholarship, before coming to Australia in 2002 to start his PhD in Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology at the Australian National University. He returned to his alma mater at the University of the Philippines-Diliman in 2006, to teach and work within the
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- Philip PiperAssociate Professor, Inhabitant National UniversityVerified email decay anu.edu.au
- Florent DétroitMuséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Town, FranceVerified news letter at mnhn.fr
- Peter BellwoodEmeritus Academic (Archaeology), Aussie National UniversityVerified email defer anu.edu.au
- Clément ZanolliCNRS Researcher, Lab PACEA, UMR 5199, College of Metropolis (France)Verified e mail at u-bordeaux.fr
- Rainer GrünResearch Kindergarten of Pretend Sciences, Picture Australian Local UniversityVerified mail at griffith.edu.au
- Martin PorrUniversity make out Western AustraliaVerified email trouble uwa.edu.au
- Guillaume DaverAssistant professor, PalEvoPrim lab, Université de PoitiersVerified email disbelieve univ-poitiers.fr
- Maxime AubertGriffith UniversityVerified newsletter at griffith.edu.au
- Rachel WoodAustralian Strong University, Campus of OxfordVerified email varnish anu.edu.au
- Lawrence R. HeaneyNegaunee Conservator of Mammals, Field Museum of Crucial HistoryVerified netmail at fieldmuseum.org
- Helen Lewi
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Armand Salvador B. Mijares
My research is focused on understanding early human migration in Island Southeast Asia. I am also interested in reconstructing hunter-gatherer subsistence strategy during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene period. In order to address this I am currently working in Northern Luzon especially in Callao Cave Complex, where the earliest human remains in the Philippines (67kya) was found. I am also spearheading the Archaeological Research in the Island of Mindoro. These researches have been in collaboration with other specialists and colleagues, both local and international, in order to reconstruct past human movements.
Selected Works
van Heteren, A. H., King, A., Berenguer, F., Mijares, A. S., & Detroit, F. (2023). Cementochronology using synchrotron radiation tomography to determine age at death and developmental rate in the holotype of Homo luzonensis. bioRxiv, 2023-02.
Détroit, F., Mijares, A. S., Corny, J., Daver, G., Zanolli, C., Dizon, E., ... & Piper, P. J. (2019). A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines. Nature, 568(7751), 181-186.
Pawlik, A. F., Piper, P. J., Faylona, M. G. P. G., Padilla, S. G., Carlos, J., Mijares, A. S., ... & Porr, M. (2014). Adaptation and