The date refers to when 'Luzones Indios' came ashore from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Esperanza and landed at what is now Morro Bay in California. Dating to about 67,000 years old, it predates the earliest human presence in the Philippines by 40,000 years. Its teeth are distinct from every other early human species, and its fingers and toes are relatively longer than a modern human’s. How this new species is related to the rest of the human family tree is unclear.

“They owned ships, underwrote large-scale export ventures, and were called “discoverers”, for their sea-faring. Dating to about 67,000 years old, it predates the earliest human presence in the Philippines by 40,000 years.As early as the 14 th century, the Luzon island natives - composed of traders, investors, mercenaries, seafarers called Luzones - were working in the commerce triangle of Southeast Asia between Canton, Malacca, and Timor.

How this new species is related to the rest of the human family tree is unclear. 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. According to records from (FANHS), Filipino-American National Historical Society, Filipinos described as Yndios Luzones (Luzon Indians from the Northern, Philippines).Homo luzonensis, also locally called ' Ubag ' after a mythical caveman, is an extinct, possibly pygmy, species of archaic human from the Late Pleistocene of Luzon, the Philippines. We landed in Morro Bay in California's Central Coast on Octoas part of The Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade. They were initially identified as belonging to modern humans in 2010, but in. Luzones Homo luzonensis, also locally called 'Ubag' after a mythical caveman, 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.

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