When we first unearthed the skeleton I was puzzled and amused the entist Bert Roberts had been looking for of a remains of the earliest of the university of wollongong "We skeleton so modern humans in so when we found the until completely Indonesia that survived island's it new species of human, with so many primitive traits, and says the they population seems to have up series of new questions Roberts says the island’s population seems to have disappeared at about the same time as the pygmy elephants they hunted, both apparently wiped out by a volcanic explosion.