Discovery of 7,000-Year-Old Remains Unravels Mystery of Unknown Group of Humans

Discovery of 7,000-Year-Old Remains Unravels Mystery of Unknown Group of Humans
Archaeologists found the remains of a teenage Toaleans girl in Sulawesi. Supplied, Leang Panninge research team
Rebecca Zhu
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The ancient remains of a hunter-gatherer girl who died over 7,000 years ago in Indonesia, has revealed clues to a mysterious group of humans from the past.

The discovery, made in 2015, in the Leang Panninge cave on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island is the first discovery of ancient human DNA in the region, known as Wallacea.