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"Hobbit" (Homo floresiensis)  artist's reconstruction.

"A male Homo floresiensis may have looked something like this"
(Image: National Geographic) -- BBC

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Homo floresiensis

"Hobbit"

general information

eight individuals

family tree

cranial capacity

tools

hominid chart

Indonesia HomePage

Homo floresiensis -- Wikipedia
Cf. "Java Man" -- Wikipedia

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Encarta interactive map

World FactBook -- Indonesia

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"Hobbit" (Homo floresiensis) skull.

"LB1, the Homo floresiensis type specimen, found at a depth of 5.9m in the limestone cave of Liang Bua on Flores, Indonesia."
(Image: Peter Brown)

"LB1 was an adult female that stood just one metre in height"
(Image: National Geographic) -- BBC

 

"When a new fossil is found it is often claimed that it will rewrite the anthropological textbooks.  But in the case of an astonishing new discovery from Indonesia, this claim is fully justified."
-- Chris Stringer

 

video

NOVA logo, Alien from Earth video.

(56 min., 2009, CC, DVD 1749)

NOVA Alien from Earth HomePage

NOVA presents an exclusive new investigation into the sensational discovery of the bizarre ancient bones of the so-called "Hobbit" unearthed in a cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia. No more than 3 feet tall when fully grown, these tiny humans survived in the cave for tens of thousands of years, hunting the huge and fierce Komodo dragons that roamed their remote island home. In Alien from Earth. NOVA explores the latest evidence in a furious scientific debate on what the Hobbit bones represent. Are they the remains of a dwarf race of modern humans suffering from a strange disease? Or are they the unique and tantalizing testament to a previously unknown branch of the human family? Special DVD features include: materials and activities for educators; a link to the NOVA Web site; scene selections; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired. On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: Region 1. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: 16:9 Anamorphic.

 

In the News . . .

The identity of the tiny human-like creature discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004 has become clearer -- and more astonishing, thanks to a new analysis by Australian and Indonesian scientists -- The Australian (19 August 2009)

Hobbits 'are a separate species' -- BBC News (6 May 2009)

"Hobbits" Were Separate Species, Skull Suggests -- National Geographic News (23 January 2009)

'Hobbit' Skull Study Finds Hobbit Is Not Human -- Science Daily (21 January 2009)

Skull study evidence of 'hobbit' species, claims US anthropologist -- Guardian (8 January 2009)

Tempest in a Hobbit Tooth -- Science (24 April 2008)

 
Bones may be from distinct species: Scientists say the "little people" of Indonesia aren't humans with a disorder
-- Minneapolis Star-Tribune / New York Times ( 23 September 2007, p. A17)

 

"Hobbit" (Homo floresiensis)  artist wrist bones.

BBC 'Hobbit' Wrists 'Were Primitive'
BBC News (9/20/07)

 

From Anthroplogy in the News, Texas A&M (3/28/08)

 

From Anthroplogy in the News, Texas A&M
(20 March 2008)

Pacific "Dwarf" Bones Cause Controversy Nature (3/10/08)

 

From Anthroplogy in the News, Texas A&M
(24 September 2007)

Wrist Bones Bolster Hobbit Status Nature (9/20/07)

 

From Anthroplogy in the News, Texas A&M
(5 March 2008)

Hobbit Was 'a Cretin' Nature (3/4/08)

 
"Hobbit" Family Tree
 
Comparison of "Hobbit" skull and skull of Homo sapiens.

"The skull of
Homo floresiensis
can only hold a brain that's about 380 cc. in size."

 

 

 

"The modern human skull [at left] holds a brain that measures between 1,400 and 1,500 cc." 

 

(Peter Brown)

 
Stone tools excavated from the Hobbit home in Flores.

Stone tools excavated from the Hobbit home in Flores

 

(Image: Mike Morwood)

 
 

Homo sapiens

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Genus

Species

Variety 

Alternative Name

Example

Homo

sapiens

heidelberg-
ensis

 

"Pre-Modern"
("Archaic")

Heidelberg, Steinheim, Swanscombe, Kabwe . . .

Neanderthal-
ensis
?

Neandertal

"Hobbit"


sapiens
(prehistoric)

Prehistoric
"Early Moderns"

Cro-Magnon, Border Cave, Qafzeh, etc.

sapiens
(contemporary)

Contemporary
"Moderns"

UMD Students

Special Case: Piltdown

Adapted from Intoduction to Physical Anthropology, 8th ed, Jurmain, Nelson, Kilgore, and Trevathan
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000, pp. 285 - 290).
 
The Hobbit

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