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2003 a team of archaeologists have come to Liang Bua, a remote cave. Once inside t they uncover something unexpected, bones of a hominoid which would have stood under a meter and a half tall. Dubbed Homo Floresiensis the discovery rocks the world of anthropology and human evolution to its core. The world is surprised by the discovery but not the people who live on Flores at the edges of the dense jungle, they’ve known the tiny ape-men since time, for them, began, they call them Ebu Gogo, and according to these people it may still be out there.
2003 a team of archaeologists have come to Liang Bua, a remote cave. Once inside t they uncover something unexpected, bones of a hominoid which would have stood under a meter and a half tall. Dubbed Homo Floresiensis the discovery rocks the world of anthropology and human evolution to its core. The world is surprised by the discovery but not the people who live on Flores at the edges of the dense jungle, they’ve known the tiny ape-men since time, for them, began, they call them Ebu Gogo, and according to these people it may still be out there.
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