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Site type:
Open air
Lat/Long:
17.75, 121.25
Country:
Philippines
Date range max:
709,000 Bp
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Remains of a Rhinoceros philippinensis found in Rizal, Kalinga dated c. 709,000 years ago

Remains of a Rhinoceros philippinensis found in Rizal, Kalinga dated c. 709,000 years ago

Kalinga is a prehistoric site on the island of Luzon in the Philippines dated to 709,000 years ago where the oldest evidence of human presence in the Philippine archipelago was discovered.1.

Until 2018, the oldest trace of human settlement in the Philippines was a 67,000-year-old foot bone, attributed to an extinct species, Homo luzonensis, discovered in Callao Cave.

The remains of the rhinoceros found at the site and the sediments are dated to 709,000 years ago by various physicochemical methods: electron spin resonance, Uranium-Argon, and paleomagnetism.

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