The Human Journey, Volumes 1 - 2 by Kevin Reilly

Author:Kevin Reilly
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781442213548
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The World of the Pacific

The Pacific Ocean covers a third of the world. For most of history, its 10,000 islands were unoccupied, but human settlement of Australia and New Guinea began soon after humans began to migrate out of Africa. Most of the further islands were colonized in a final wave of human settlement that began about 3,500 years ago.

Islands and Settlers

Recently, a team of anthropologists on the Indonesian island of Flores startled the world with the discovery of the skeletons of what appears to be an entirely different human species, which they are calling Homo florensis. At this writing, scientists disagree as to whether these three-foot-tall people, who lived on Flores as recently as 13,000 years ago, are descendants of Homo erectus who traveled from Africa to Asia over a million years ago, arriving on Flores about 840,000 years ago, or the descendants of later Homo sapiens. In either case, however, all the adult skeletons of H. florensis are much smaller than their African ancestors.

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