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Soa Basin

17 images Created 15 May 2010

Homeland for proto-hobbits? 840,000-year old tools found here suggest early colonization of the remote island of Flores.

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  • A gnarled tree frames Mt. Ebulobo in the parched landscape of Mata Menge, So'a Basin, central Flores.
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  • Sunset over irrigated fields in So'a Basin, central Flores. Mt. Ebulobo towers in the backdrop.
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  • Surverying the So'a Basin of central Flores by sunset.
    MATA MENGE Sunset Trekkers
  • Mt. Ebulobo smoulders over the So'a Basin. Active volcanoes have pumped sediment into the basin for more than a million years, offering a long archaeological and paleontological record for the region.
    MountEbuloboSoaBasinFlores.jpg
  • Mt. Ebulobo smoulders over the So'a Basin. Active volcanoes have pumped sediment into the basin for more than a million years, offering a long archaeological and paleontological record for the region.
    MountEbuloboSoaBasinFlores3566-Edit.jpg
  • Sunset over So'a Basin.
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  • Ngada cattle herder, So'a Basin.
    MATA MENGE Ngada Cattle Herder
  • Ngada cattle herder, So'a Basin.
    NgadaCattleHerderFlores3545.jpg
  • Ngada culture farmers commuting home, Mata Menge, So'a Basin, Flores.
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  • Irrigated rice fields, So'a Basin.
    RiceFieldsSoaBasin.jpg
  • Flores, Hot springs near Mata Menge, rank among the world's largest in terms of flow rate
    MATA MENGE Hot Springs
  • Chris Neal enjoys a natural jacuzzi. The Mata Menge hot springs boast some of the highest flow rates anywhere on earth.
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  • Flores, Hot springs near Mata Menge, rank among the world's largest in terms of flow rate
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  • The Mata Menge hot springs boast some of the highest flow rates anywhere on earth.
    Bajawa-DjunaPix-02.jpg
  • Ivan Botha displays Stegodon bones and stone tools found scattered on the surface at Mata Menge, So'a Basin. Artifacts dating back 840,000 years may represent the ancestors of Homo floresiensis and imply the first known hominid water crossing to the remote island of Flores.
    MATA MENGE Archaeologist
  • Ivan Botha displays Stegodon bones and stone tools found scattered on the surface at Mata Menge, So'a Basin. Artifacts dating back 840,000 years may represent the ancestors of Homo floresiensis and imply the first known hominid water crossing to the remote island of Flores.
    MataMengeArtefactsFlores6917.jpg
  • Ivan Botha displays Stegodon bones and stone tools found scattered on the surface at Mata Menge, So'a Basin. Artifacts dating back 840,000 years may represent the ancestors of Homo floresiensis and imply the first known hominid water crossing to the remote island of Flores.
    MataMengeArtefactsFlores6915.jpg
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