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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

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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

From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology
(5 May 2008)

Tempest in a Hobbit Tooth Science (4/24/08)

 

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)

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"Hobbit" Family Tree

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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)

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Stone tools excavated from the Hobbit home in Flores.

Stone tools excavated from the Hobbit home in Flores

 

(Image: Mike Morwood)

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Homo sapiens

| Primates -- Contemporary | Primates -- Prehistoric | Hominids | Australopithecus |

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Genus

Species

Variety 

Alternative Name

Example

Homo

sapiens

heidelberg-
ensis

 

"Archaic"

Heidelberg, Steinheim, Swanscombe, Kabwe, etc.

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).

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