Word: sambungmacan
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...migratory autobahn between Asia and Australia, making it the perfect spot to study how animals spread. Since the 1890s, numerous fossils of Homo erectus have been found on the island, but scientists were particularly intrigued by more than a dozen partial skulls found near the villages of Ngandong and Sambungmacan in the 1930s and 1970s. The skulls had unusually large braincases, and so were estimated to be anywhere from 100,000 to 400,000 years old, among the youngest Homo erectus remains ever found. For more than a generation, those estimates stood. Two years ago, however, a team headed...
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