The bizarre dental question

April 30th, 2008
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noelbynature Posted in Indonesia |

This story of the Hobbit tooth should have come out earlier, but I seem to have missed it out. This was what’s been causing the recent Hobbit tooth furore over the past couple of days (see here and here).

Tempest in a Hobbit Tooth
Science, 24 April 2008

If Henneberg is right, the hobbit cannot be 18,000 years old, because only modern cultures do this kind of dental work. He wanted to see the bones again to test his idea, but his group has been denied access to the specimen by the Indonesians now in charge of it, because the discovery team is still analyzing it. “Access to the [original] specimens could have settled the tooth question … in minutes,” Henneberg says. So he made his claim not in a meeting or paper but in a book published last week and in hallway chat at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting in Columbus, Ohio, earlier this month.

Related books:
- A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the “Hobbits” of Flores, Indonesia
- Little People And a Lost World: An Anthropological Mystery (Discovery!)
- Genetic structure of Flores island (Azores, Portugal) in the 19th century and in the present day: evidence from surname analysis.: An article from: Human Biology
- A big discovery about little people.: An article from: Science News for Kids
- The size of scalable brain components in the human evolutionary lineage: With a comment on the paradox of Homo floresiensis [An article from: HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology]
- Homo floresiensis and human equality: enduring lessons from Stephen Jay Gould.(Critical essay): An article from: Monthly Review