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.
Sources
- Digs & Discoveries - Settling Southeast Asia - Archaeology Magazine - November/December 2012 (archaeology.org)
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1208104109 (pnas.org)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-oldest-human-fossils-in-southeast-asia-16207900/ (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/694192 (journals.uchicago.edu)
- https://www.iflscience.com/cave-contains-earliest-clear-evidence-of-modern-humans-in-south-east-asia-69371 (iflscience.com)