National Geographic Presents - The Mystery Skulls of Palau (Part 1)

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Palau is a remote tropical island in the Pacific, 500 miles from any other land mass. 21000 people live on the main islands of Palau, but there are also hundreds of additional uninhabited small islands. Modern man, Homo sapiens, evolved 195000 years ago, but the first inhabitants of Palau were only thought to have arrived 3000 years ago after traveling east from Indonesia. New discoveries change this thinking. In 2004, Homo floresiensis was discovered on the Island of Flores. Dubbed the ...