Skull may identify tiny islanders who shrank to survive
Shown here is one specimen with a brow ridge found in Ucheliungs Cave in Palau in 2006 (center), set between a model of a modern human female skull (left), and a model of the skull of Homo Floresiensis.
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An incredible find on a tiny chain of islands in Micronesia provides what at first appeared to be human bones, but archaeologists quickly realised they were too small and unusual. The problem is the bones are only a few thousand years old… Was it a new species of previously unknown human? Was it a different species entirely?
The biggest problem is the Islands of Palau are so remote there is no explanation as to how these human-like creatures ever arrived there in the first place. One of the most remarkable archaeological finds in history, the lost tribe of Palau contains a secret that changes our entire view of evolution…
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