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Figure 133 Children on the Muslim island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. Nearby islands in the
same chain are Hindu or Christian.
by a storm. And, because of the strong currents that raced through the chan-
nels, they would probably have had to cross between islands further north
and work their way south to Flores.
Regardless of how the migrating hominans managed to accomplish the
feat, it was clear that they had somehow made their way to Flores hundreds
of thousands of years before the arrival of modern humans. But there were
no skeletal remains to give us clues about what they were actually like.
Nothing further was found out about the early inhabitants of Flores until
2003. And then Morwood and his Australian-Indonesian team made one of
the most breathtaking discoveries in all human prehistory.
They were carrying out deep and technically challenging excavations in
one of the great open-mouthed limestone caves in the mountainous central
part of the island. The cave, called Liang Bua (“cool cave” in the local language),
 
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