Hominins on Flores, Indonesia, by one million years ago

Adam Brumm (), Gitte M. Jensen, Gert D. van den Bergh, Michael J. Morwood, Iwan Kurniawan, Fachroel Aziz and Michael Storey
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Adam Brumm: Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia
Gitte M. Jensen: Quaternary Dating Laboratory, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde University, PO Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Gert D. van den Bergh: Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia
Michael J. Morwood: Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia
Iwan Kurniawan: Geological Survey Institute
Fachroel Aziz: Geological Survey Institute
Michael Storey: Quaternary Dating Laboratory, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde University, PO Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark

Nature, 2010, vol. 464, issue 7289, 748-752

Abstract: Early arrivals on Flores Hominin activity on Flores in Indonesia goes back at least 800,000 years, as evidenced by fission-track dating of archaeological sites at Mata Menge in the Soa Basin (published before the discovery of the Homo floresiensis fossils at Liang Bua, to the west). New research at another locality in the Soa Basin (for coverage in News) uses the more accurate technique of 40Ar/39Ar dating to show that hominins were living on Flores a million years ago. This raises doubts over suggestions that the arrival of hominins was a factor in the mass death of a giant tortoise and dwarf elephant species, which may instead be related to natural processes.

Date: 2010
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