No artifacts were found with the skull bones at Tam Pa Ling Cave.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by the primary PNAS paper, a follow-up 2017 Current Anthropology review, and multiple independent science journalism sources (Smithsonian, IFLScience, Archaeology.org), all consistent across more than a decade of excavation seasons. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=silver indep_score=0.963 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on Original excavation reports by the Demeter/Shackelford research team at Tam Pa Ling (upstreams: Demeter et al. 2012 PNAS study, Shackelford et al. excavation team field reports/2017 Current Anthropology review) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- Digs & Discoveries - Settling Southeast Asia - Archaeology Magazine - November/December 2012 (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1208104109 (corroboration)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-oldest-human-fossils-in-southeast-asia-16207900/ (corroboration)
- https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/694192 (corroboration)
- https://www.iflscience.com/cave-contains-earliest-clear-evidence-of-modern-humans-in-south-east-asia-69371 (corroboration)