The Official Hobbit Article

Thursday, August 24th, 2006 Posted in Indonesia, Papers, Prehistory | No Comments »

23 August 2006 (Proceedings from the National Academy of Science of the United States of America) - The article is finally out (and better yet, it's on open access!) The ... Read more..

Hobbit debate: 3 more articles

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Indonesia, Prehistory | No Comments »

21, 22 August 2006 (New York Times, National Geographic News, San Francisco Chronicle) - The hobbit debate seems to be picking up speed among the mainstream media with decent science ... Read more..

Is this the end of Homo Floresiensis?

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Indonesia, Prehistory | 1 Comment »

21 August 2006 (John Hawks Weblog) - John Hawks, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison writes a long (a far more qualified than me to give ... Read more..

Hobbit Debate Turns Nasty

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 Posted in Indonesia, Papers, Prehistory | No Comments »

22 August 2006 (ABC News in Science) - A follow up from the previous press release describing the Hobbit debate. Am still waiting for the article to appear in the ... Read more..

No hobbits in this shire

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 Posted in Indonesia, Prehistory | No Comments »

21 Aug 2006 (Press Release, from EurekaAlert) - Fresh off the press! It turns out that the Indonesian Hobbit, the homo floresiensis, is not a new species of human being ... Read more..

Old tools shed light on hobbit origins

Thursday, June 1st, 2006 Posted in Indonesia, Paleontology, Prehistory | 1 Comment »

1 June 2006 (Nature) - Stone tool finds beside hobbit suggest that they inherited tool-making tradition from homo erectus predecessors. Old tools shed light on hobbit origins The latest twist in the ... Read more..

Hobbit theory under fire

Saturday, May 20th, 2006 Posted in Indonesia, Prehistory | No Comments »

19 May 2006 (Science, but also in too many other media) - The theory of the Hobbit man, or Homo floresiensis is under debate now as primatologist Robert Martin questions ... Read more..



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