Early People of Palau.

The article reports on the discovery of diminutive fossils of Homo sapiens in two caves of Palau in the Philippines. These fossils represent several tens of individuals wherein it ranges from about 3000 to 1500 years who thought to have arrived in the country about 1000 years earlier. The artifacts include several complete, small crania still encased in flowstone and its preliminary measurements suggest a brain size near the low end of extant Homo sapiens and close to that of Homo erectus. Although they discovered many traits which are consistent with Homo sapiens, some fossils exhibit more primitive traits.