SEAArch – The Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog

Last week, the Stony Brook University in New York hosted a one-day symposium at the Turkana Basin Institute entitled Hobbits in a Haystack: Homo floresiensis and human evolution. In this edition of rojak, we’ll be focusing on some of the buzz from the symposium.

photo credit: ideonexus

• I’d like to start off by introducing Raymond Ho, a Bioanthropology Major at CUNY – Queens College who blogs about the Hobbit symposium sessions here (list of sessions) and here (Dean Falk’s talk on the Hobbit’s brain). Raymond also come from Malaysia – Ipoh to be exact!
• Check out some pictures of the Hobbit’s skeleton in Mamoritai’s photostream.
• The New York Times writes that the emerging consensus among the experts is that homo floresiensis is indeed a new species.

In this series of ocassional rojaks (published on Wednesdays) I feature other sites in the blogosphere that are related to archaeology in Southeast Asia. Got a recommendation for the next Wednesday rojak? Email me!

Tags: Hobbits in a Haystack, homo floresiensis, Raymond Ho, Turkana Basin Institute

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