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Sometimes, to do archaeology, you have to do archaeology on the archaeologists!

[ . . . ] Frank Huffman, from the University of Texas at Austin, had tracked down the descendants of the Dutch researchers who excavated the Homo erectus remains back in the 1930s.

[ . . . ]

"He was able to tell us exactly where to dig," [Prof Russell Ciochon of the University of Iowa] said of [Huffman].

bbc.com/news/science-environme…

www.bbc.comHomo erectus: Ancient humans survived longer than we thoughtAn ancient ancestor of modern humans survived into relatively recent times in South East Asia.
I guess to be accurate, if you're studying the bones of erectus rather than sapiens, you're in paleontology rather than archaeology. But archeology archaeology sounds more fun than paleontology archaeology.
Marc

@clacke
climate is not great for preservation, but the date of extinction of and descendant species may be pushed closer and closer to the .

Right now, only the dead know.

Reading through the article now.