![]() ![]() Important discoveriesĪ joint Australian-Indonesian team, looking for evidence of the early migration of Homo sapiens from Asia to Australia, stumbled on the remains of a small human in the cave of Liang Bua, Flores, in 2003. Although there is no evidence of modern humans in Liang Bua cave until 11,000 years ago, our species was moving through the region about 50,000 years ago. ![]() Instead, it is now considered possible that the arrival of modern humans played a role. The loss was originally attributed to a volcanic eruption that occurred on Flores approximately 12,000 years ago but the recently published dates nullify this suggestion. Their disappearance coincides with that of other local fauna such as the Stegodon, the giant marabou stork and various vulture species. These dates make it one of the latest-surviving humans along with Neanderthals, Denisovans and our own species H. floresiensis lived at Liang Bua from at least 190,000 to 50,000 years ago (recent dates published in Nature, March 2016). The human remains date from about 100,000 to 60,000 years old, but archaeological evidence (mostly associated stone tools) suggests H. floresiensis are not our ancestors but their unusual features and recent survival indicates our human family tree is more complex than once thought. Conflicting interpretations and debates surround the remains of these tiny humans from Indonesia. ![]()
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