Scientist says a 700,000-year-old fossil of ancient hominins is the ‘smallest upper arm bone known from the hominin fossil record worldwide.’
The Mata Menge humerus fragment shown at the same scale as the humerus of Homo floresiensis from Liang Bua.Roughly a 700,000-year-old fossil was discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores likely belonging to the earliest species of hominins.
Recently, a study analyzed the fossils and shared important information on the evolution of Homo floresiensis, also called ‘Hobbits’ of Flores after discovering additional hominin fossils from Mata Menge dating to 700,000 years ago.The earlier fossils belonged to ‘diminutive, small-brained humans’ who lived in Lian Bua probably 50,000 years ago, according to a statement by the scientists. This was a period when homo sapiens were already existing in Australia to the south of Flores.
This collection includes the first postcranial element, a distal shaft of an adult humerus . “This very rare specimen confirms our hypothesis that the ancestors of Homo floresiensis were extremely small in body size,” he added.
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