Ancient Small Humans' Bones Found on Island

Ancient Small Humans' Bones Found on Island
Ancient Small Humans' Bones Found on Island
Ancient Small Humans' Bones Found on Island
Ancient Small Humans' Bones Found on Island
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Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger led a National Geographic Society-funded expedition to Palau in 2006 to collect bones of small-bodied humans from Ucheliungs Cave.

He is pictured here in a tight passage trying to free a human skull that had become cemented to the flowstone of the cave floor. Other bones are visible at right. Berger said the bones "weren't very typical—very small, in fact."

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