Ateneo built a robot that digs up ancient artifacts -- and what it's finding is rewriting Philippine prehistory. 🤖🏺 Turns out Pinoys were crossing open seas hundreds of thousands of years ago. Here's the full story 👇

#AteneodeManila #ArchaeoBot #Phili

https://astig.ph/ateneo-archaeobot-ancient-philippines-archaeology-robot-2026/

Ateneo built a robot archaeologist — and it’s rewriting what we know about ancient Filipinos

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Mar 2026) — Long before the Spanish arrived, Pinoys were already crossing open seas, hunting sharks and tuna, and building lives across islands that had no land bridge to …

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We also published a new #archaeobotanical dataset created by Claire Malleson. The data describe plant remains primarily from Middle Kingdom domestic contexts at #Elephantine, in the south of #Egypt.

https://opencontext.org/projects/a4802286-7c88-473a-9e11-11f7c698b3ac

#archaeobot #archaeology #egyptology

Realities of Life on Elephantine: archaeobotanical database

Charred Macro-botanical remains from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) “Realities of Life” project excavations in the northwestern town of Elephantine Island (Egypt), 2013–2018