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Vito Hernandez
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Southeast Asian geoarchaeologist, dog lover, cycles everywhere (well, almost)
Fantastic research by Hsiao-chun Hung and colleagues published today in @pnas.org . Thanks @newscientist.com for soliciting my opinion on the research, allowing me to highlight how interesting and amazing Southeast Asia is culturally, not to mention ancient!
www.newscientist.com/article/2496...
The oldest human mummies were slowly smoked 14,000 years ago
For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a tradition that continues to this day in some cultures
www.newscientist.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Slightly delayed, but I appreciate the feature @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

Shout out to @mikegeoarch.bsky.social who was a big part of this success.
Get to know PhD student – Vito Hernandez – HDR students in focus
blogs.flinders.edu.au
July 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
10th World Archaeology Congress has wrapped up. Here's us who presented in the session 'Microarchaeology—Using Micro-analytical Techniques to Elucidate the Deep Environmental Past and the Evolution of Our Species'. Our session and the whole of the conference was largely successful
June 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Reposted by Vito Hernandez
Check out our new paper in JAS describing a new Pleistocene combustion feature from the Riverlands in South Australia. Fantastic to collaborate with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation, Flinders colleagues and other collaborators
May 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It was an absolute honour to have contributed a small part to this work, an important contribution to understanding the formation and preservation of combustion features in Late Pleistocene open sites in Australia and globally. #microstratigraphy #geoarchaeology #Sahul
May 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Amazing finds. Expected, but only now realised, thanks to dreaming big, being unprecedented, & right timing & support. Harold Berghuis PhD! Bravo!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A late Middle Pleistocene lowstand valley of the Solo River on the Madura Strait seabed, geology and age of the first hominin locality of submerged Sundaland
The island of Java (Indonesia) is renowned for its Pleistocene hominin-bearing vertebrate fossil sites. Recently, a marine sand extraction work in the…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Amazing finds. Expected, but only now realised, thanks to dreaming big, being unprecedented, & right timing & support. Harold Berghuis PhD! Bravo!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The taphonomy of the Madura Strait fossil assemblage, a record of selective hunting and marrow processing by late Middle Pleistocene Sundaland hominins
The Madura Strait assemblage is the first vertebrate faunal record of submerged Sundaland. The material derives from an ancient valley of the Solo Riv…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Amazing finds. Expected, but only now realised, thanks to dreaming big, being unprecedented, & right timing & support. Harold Berghuis PhD! Bravo!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The late Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus of the Madura Strait, first hominin fossils from submerged Sundaland
Eastern Asia yielded a rich fossil record of Pleistocene hominins, ranging from Homo erectus and the diminutive island species Homo floresiensis and H…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Reposted by Vito Hernandez
Check out our new highly-citable entry, Southeast Asian Caves, in the 2nd edition Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, co-authored with 2 fantastic former PhD students of mine, @ingatkatandaan.bsky.social & Conor McAdams

#geoarchaeology @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

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Southeast Asian Caves
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February 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Beginning work this 2025 @flindersuniversity.bsky.social, part of a project using archaeological science to better understand the long history of Early Modern Period Cambodia, aimed at unravelling stories of resilience anchored on a deeper understanding of economy, industry & environmental change.
February 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Reposted by Vito Hernandez
A great little piece in the latest issue of Australian Geographic about our newly ARC-funded Australian Microarchaeology and Palaeosciences Facility (AusMAP), currently in the process of being constructed. Featuring a small photo of @ingatkatandaan.bsky.social in the current lab. Watch this space!!
February 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Working in the field of Human Evolution and using Microarchaeology to make sense of it all? Please consider submitting a paper abstract to our session in this exciting theme at WAC-10. DM me for more info. worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/theme-...
January 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Working in the field of Human Evolution and using Microarchaeology to make sense of it all? Please consider submitting a paper abstract to our session in this exciting theme at WAC-10 this year. Drop me a DM for more info.
Check out these five amazing sessions in our “Transforming Human Origins Research” Theme to be held at WAC-10 in June! Here’s your chance to make a presentation! worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/theme-...
January 30, 2025 at 4:46 AM