Homo luzonensis lived on the Philippine island of Luzon at least 50,000 to 67,000 years ago.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by original 2019 Nature paper and multiple independent corroborating sources (CNRS, Nature news, Science). Note later 2023 uranium-series re-dating suggests fossils may be older (~130,000-134,000 years), but this doesn't invalidate the original reported dating range which is what the claim reflects. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=exceptional | framework convergence=single on Détroit et al. (2019) Nature study 'A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines' (upstreams: Détroit et al. 2019 Nature paper, Callao Cave Archaeology Project, uranium-series dating analysis) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines (seed:science_and_space)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1067-9 (corroboration)
- https://www.cnrs.fr/sites/default/files/press_info/2019-04/Callao%20press%20release_english.pdf (corroboration)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01019-7 (corroboration)
- https://www.science.org/content/article/new-species-ancient-human-unearthed-philippines (corroboration)