Back Homo luzonensis Afrikaans إنسان كالاو Arabic Homo luzonensis BCL Homo luzonensis Byelorussian Homo luzonensis Catalan Homo luzonensis CEB Homo luzonensis Czech Homo luzonensis German Homo luzonensis Spanish Homo luzonensis Basque
| Homo luzonensis Temporal range: late Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene,
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| CCH6a–e, molar and premolar teeth | |
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| CCH1, a 67,000 year old third metatarsal bone | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Subfamily: | Homininae |
| Tribe: | Hominini |
| Genus: | Homo |
| Species: | †H. luzonensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Homo luzonensis Détroit et al., 2019[1]
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Homo luzonensis, also known as Callao Man and locally called "Ubag" after a mythical caveman,[2][3] is an extinct, possibly pygmy, species of archaic human from the Late Pleistocene of Luzon, the Philippines. Their remains, teeth and phalanges, are known only from Callao Cave in the northern part of the island dating to before 50,000 years ago. They were initially identified as belonging to modern humans in 2010, but in 2019, after the discovery of more specimens, they were placed into a new species based on the presence of a wide range of traits similar to modern humans as well as to Australopithecus and early Homo. In 2023, a study found that the fossilized remains were 134,000 ± 14,000 years old, much older than previously thought.[4]
Their ancestors, who may have been Asian H. erectus or some other even earlier Homo, would have needed to have made a sea crossing of several miles[a] at minimum to reach the island. Hominin presence on Luzon dates to as early as 771,000 to 631,000 years ago.[5] The inhabitants of the cave dragged in mainly Philippine deer carcasses, and used tools for butchering.
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- ^ Gascon, Melvin. "Philippine cave discovery: Meet 'Homo luzonensis'". Philippine Daily Inquirer.
- ^ Rainer Grün, Chris Stringer, Direct dating of human fossils and the ever-changing story of human evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 322, 2023, 108379, ISSN 0277-3791
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