Editing Flores (section)

===Prehistory===
{{Main|Homo floresiensis}}
Before the arrival of modern humans, Flores was occupied by ''[[Homo floresiensis]]'', a small [[archaic human]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Baab|first1=Karen L.|last2=McNulty|first2=Kieran P.|last3=Harvati|first3=Katerina|year=2013|title=Homo floresiensis Contextualized: A Geometric Morphometric Comparative Analysis of Fossil and Pathological Human Samples|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=8|issue=7|pages=e69119|bibcode=2013PLoSO...869119B|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0069119|pmc=3707875|pmid=23874886|doi-access=free}}</ref> The ancestors of ''Homo floresiensis'' arrived on the island between 1.3 and 1 million years ago.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=van den Bergh|first1=Gerrit D.|last2=Alloway|first2=Brent V.|last3=Storey|first3=Michael|last4=Setiawan|first4=Ruly|last5=Yurnaldi|first5=Dida|last6=Kurniawan|first6=Iwan|last7=Moore|first7=Mark W.|last8=Jatmiko|last9=Brumm|first9=Adam |last10= Flude |first10= Stephanie|last11=Sutikna|first11=Thomas|last12=Setiyabudi|first12=Erick|last13=Prasetyo|first13=Unggul W.|last14=Puspaningrum|first14=Mika R.|last15=Yoga|first15=Ifan|date=October 2022|title=An integrative geochronological framework for the Pleistocene So'a basin (Flores, Indonesia), and its implications for faunal turnover and hominin arrival|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0277379122003523|journal=Quaternary Science Reviews|language=en|volume=294|pages=107721|doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107721|bibcode=2022QSRv..29407721V|hdl=10072/418777|s2cid=252290750|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

As of 2015, partial remains of fifteen individuals have been found,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Kaifu|first1=Yousuke|last2=Kono|first2=Reiko T.|last3=Sutikna|first3=Thomas|last4=Saptomo|first4=E. Wahyu|last5=Jatmiko|last6=Rokus Due Awe|last7=Baba|first7=Hisao|date=2015|title=Descriptions of the dental remains of ''Homo floresiensis''|journal=Anthropological Science|volume=123|issue=2|pages=129–145|doi=10.1537/ase.150501|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282740723|access-date=2024-06-20}}</ref><ref name="Brown_et_al_2004">{{cite journal|author=Brown, P.|display-authors=etal<!---|coauthors=Sutikna, T.; Morwood, M. J.; Soejono, R. P.; Jatmiko, Wayhu Saptomo, E.; Rokus Awe Due--->|date=27 October 2004|title=A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|pmid=15514638|volume=431|issue=7012|doi=10.1038/nature02999|pages=1055–1061|bibcode=2004Natur.431.1055B|s2cid=26441|url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/15287/files/PAL_E2586.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Morwood05">{{cite journal|author=Morwood, M. J.|display-authors=etal<!---|coauthors=Brown, P.; Jatmiko, Sutikna, T.; Wahyu Saptomo, E.; Westaway, K. E.; Rokus Awe Due; Roberts, R. G.; Maeda, T.; Wasisto, S.; Djubiantono, T.--->|date=13 October 2005|title=Further evidence for small-bodied hominins from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=437|issue=7061|pages=1012–1017|bibcode=2005Natur.437.1012M|doi=10.1038/nature04022|pmid=16229067|s2cid=4302539}}</ref> and the dominant consensus is that these remains do represent a distinct species due to anatomical differences from modern humans.<ref name="Argue2017">{{cite journal|last1=Argue|first1=Debbie|last2=Groves|first2=Colin P.|date=21 April 2017|title=The affinities of Homo floresiensis based on phylogenetic analyses of cranial, dental, and postcranial characters|journal=Journal of Human Evolution|volume=107|pages=107–133|doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.02.006|pmid=28438318|bibcode=2017JHumE.107..107A }}</ref> The most recent evidence shows that ''Homo floresiensis'' likely became extinct 50,000 years ago, around the time of modern human arrival to the archipelago.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Sutikna|first1=Thomas|last2=Tocheri|first2=Matthew W.|last3=Morwood|first3=Michael J.|last4=Saptomo|first4=E. Wahyu|last5=Jatmiko|last6=Awe|first6=Rokus Due|last7=Wasisto|first7=Sri|last8=Westaway|first8=Kira E.|last9=Aubert|first9=Maxime |last10=Li |first10=Bo|last11=Zhao|first11=Jian-xin|last12=Storey|first12=Michael|last13=Alloway|first13=Brent V.|last14=Morley|first14=Mike W.|last15=Meijer|first15=Hanneke J. M.|last16=van den Bergh|first16=Gerrit D.|last17=Grün|first17=Rainer|last18=Dosseto|first18=Anthony|last19=Brumm|first19=Adam |last20=Jungers |first20=William L.|last21=Roberts|first21=Richard G.|display-authors=3|year=2016|title=Revised stratigraphy and chronology for Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in Indonesia|journal=Nature|volume=532|issue=7599|pages=366–369|bibcode=2016Natur.532..366S|doi=10.1038/nature17179|pmid=27027286|hdl=1885/109256|s2cid=4469009|url=https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers/3778}}</ref>

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Image:Homo Florensiensis-MGL 95216-P5030051-white.jpg|''H. floresiensis'' skull, [[Cantonal Museum of Geology]], Switzerland
Image:Homo floresiensis cave.jpg|[[Liang Bua]] Cave, where the specimens were discovered
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