Elaborate drawings adorn the walls of a rock shelter on Palau's Ulong Island. This Pacific archipelago's many caves and natural rock formations have housed humans going back some 4,000 years.
Rising from the turquoise waters of the Pacific Ocean, the many islands and islets of Palau are home to pristine coral reefs, dense jungles, and ancient caves.
Learn about Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger's National Geographic Society-funded expedition to Palau in 2006 to collect bones of small-bodied humans from Ucheliungs Cave.
