Wednesday Rojak #55 – The Hobbit Symposium edition
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?Ā Email me!
Hobbit replica to be displayed
Wednesday Rojak #64 – The stolen and fading traditions edition
Wednesday Rojak #7
Wednesday Rojak #10
Wednesday Rojak #2
Tags: Hobbits in a Haystack, homo floresiensis, Raymond Ho, Turkana Basin Institute
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Leave a Reply