the archaeologist who found the remains is armand mijares. he had dug in callao cave in 2003, but he stopped at a little more than one meter deep. he said that the discovery of "homo floresiensis", a hominin from about 50,000 bp found in indonesia in 2004, led him to return to the cave in 2007. about a meter and a half below where he had stopped before, his team found fossil bones. one of the bones was a human metatarsal, a foot bone.