# Mata Menge mandible fragment and teeth

> Mata Menge mandible fragment and teeth

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-floresiensis/artifacts/ART0CZNMWTA1MMC/mata-menge-mandible-fragment-and-teeth  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page)  

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**ART** 0CZNMWTA1MMC·Artifact · object

# Mata Menge mandible fragment and teeth

ObjectpublisherExcavated 2014; about 700,000 years

[Cite]

**Not kept here.** This copy isn't ours to show. [See it where it's published](https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17999).

van den Bergh and others, 2014. publisher

## Copies 1

**Photo** van den Bergh and others · doi.org · 2016 · publisherPrimary source: [Homo floresiensis-like fossils from the early Middle Pleistocene of Flores](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CZNM7TE5DJF/homo-floresiensis-like-fossils-from-the-early-middle)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17999)

## Where it was made

[Mata Menge, So'a Basin, Ngada, Flores](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CZNMCYG31HP/mata-menge-soa-basin-ngada-flores) · Fossil site

## Sources 2

- [Age and context of the oldest known hominin fossils from Flores](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CZNM8285CTK/age-and-context-of-the-oldest-known-hominin-fossils-from)_SRC_
- [Homo floresiensis-like fossils from the early Middle Pleistocene of Flores](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CZNM7TE5DJF/homo-floresiensis-like-fossils-from-the-early-middle)_SRC_

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Mata Menge mandible fragment and teeth [Artifact ART0CZNMWTA1MMC]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0CZNMWTA1MMC
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Key

**ART** 0CZNMWTA1MMC

Kind

Object

Held by

Geological Museum, Bandung

Dated

excavated 2014; about 700,000 years

Licence

publisher

Place

[Mata Menge, So'a Basin, Ngada, Flores](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CZNMCYG31HP/mata-menge-soa-basin-ngada-flores)

Part of

[Homo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-floresiensis)

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