My research is focused on understanding early human migration in Island Southeast Asia. I am also interested in reconstructing hunter-gatherer subsistence strategy during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene period. In order to address this I am currently working in Northern Luzon especially in Callao Cave Complex, where the earliest human remains in the Philippines (67kya) was found. I am also spearheading the Archaeological Research in the Island of Mindoro. These researches have been in collaboration with other specialists and colleagues, both local and international, in order to reconstruct past human movements.

Selected Works
van Heteren, A. H., King, A., Berenguer, F., Mijares, A. S., & Detroit, F. (2023). Cementochronology using synchrotron radiation tomography to determine age at death and developmental rate in the holotype of Homo luzonensis. bioRxiv, 2023-02.

Détroit, F., Mijares, A. S., Corny, J., Daver, G., Zanolli, C., Dizon, E., ... & Piper, P. J. (2019). A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines. Nature, 568(7751), 181-186.

Pawlik, A. F., Piper, P. J., Faylona, M. G. P. G., Padilla, S. G., Carlos, J., Mijares, A. S., ... & Porr, M. (2014). Adaptation and foraging from the terminal Pleistocene to the early Holocene: excavation at Bubog on Ilin Island, Philippines. Journal of Field Archaeology, 39(3), 230-247.

Mijares, A. S., Détroit, F., Piper, P., Grün, R., Bellwood, P., Aubert, M., ... & Dizon, E. (2010). New evidence for a 67,000-year-old human presence at Callao Cave, Luzon, Philippines. Journal of human evolution, 59(1), 123-132.

Mijares, A. S. B. (2007). Unearthing prehistory: the archaeology of northeastern Luzon, Philippine Islands. (No Title).