The invisible plant technology of Prehistoric Southeast Asia: Indirect evidence for basket and rope making at Tabon Cave, Philippines, 39–33,000 years ago

• Hermine Xhauflair ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hermine_xhauflair@hotmail.com

  Affiliations School of Archaeology, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, UMR 7194 of the CNRS, Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle and Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7148-3164

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• Sheldon Jago-on ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheldon Jago-on, Timothy James Vitales, Dante Manipon, Noel Amano, John Rey Callado, Danilo Tandang, Céline Kerfant

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation National Museum of the Philippines, City of Manila, Philippines

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• Timothy James Vitales ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheldon Jago-on, Timothy James Vitales, Dante Manipon, Noel Amano, John Rey Callado, Danilo Tandang, Céline Kerfant

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation National Museum of the Philippines, City of Manila, Philippines

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1941-7482

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• Dante Manipon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheldon Jago-on, Timothy James Vitales, Dante Manipon, Noel Amano, John Rey Callado, Danilo Tandang, Céline Kerfant

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Archaeology, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

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• Noel Amano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheldon Jago-on, Timothy James Vitales, Dante Manipon, Noel Amano, John Rey Callado, Danilo Tandang, Céline Kerfant

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany

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• John Rey Callado ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheldon Jago-on, Timothy James Vitales, Dante Manipon, Noel Amano, John Rey Callado, Danilo Tandang, Céline Kerfant

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation National Museum of the Philippines, City of Manila, Philippines

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• Danilo Tandang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheldon Jago-on, Timothy James Vitales, Dante Manipon, Noel Amano, John Rey Callado, Danilo Tandang, Céline Kerfant

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation National Museum of the Philippines, City of Manila, Philippines

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• Céline Kerfant ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheldon Jago-on, Timothy James Vitales, Dante Manipon, Noel Amano, John Rey Callado, Danilo Tandang, Céline Kerfant

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Departament d’Humanitats, Història / Culture and Socio-Ecological Dynamics (CaSEs), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

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• Omar Choa,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UMR 7194 of the CNRS, Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle and Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0798-6648

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• Alfred Pawlik

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sociology and Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3435-550X

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