The Hobbit debate rages on

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Posted in Indonesia | No Comments »

Debate about the hobbit continues at the recent American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting. Hobbit debate goes out on some limbs Science News, 19 April 2010 Read more..

Hominins on Flores by one million years ago

Monday, March 29th, 2010 Posted in Indonesia | No Comments »

A paper by Brumm et al released online in Nature earlier this month reports the finds of stone tools in Wolo Sege, Flores dating to about a million years old. ... Read more..

The Hobbit’s dental work

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Indonesia | 5 Comments »

In an interesting twist to the hotly-debated Hobbit saga, a new book claims that the Hobbit remains appear to have had some dental work on them, overturning the supposed antiquity ... Read more..

Wednesday Rojak #5

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 Posted in Angkor, Cambodia, Indonesia, Wednesday Rojak | No Comments »

Hobbits! Hobbits! and more Hobbits! is the theme for this week's Wednesday Rojak, which is not surprising since last week saw the release of a paper supporting the hobbit-is-not-human camp ... Read more..

Newsweek on the Hobbit

Monday, September 24th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia, Paleontology | No Comments »

20 September 2007 (Newsweek) - Newsweek magazine features an interview with Matthew Tocheri, one of the investigators behind the Hobbit wrist study. 'Tip of the Iceberg' A new study of a skeleton ... Read more..

The wrist is the ‘smoking gun’

Friday, September 21st, 2007 Posted in Paleontology | No Comments »

21 September 2007 (ABC News in Science) - The proof is all in the wrist! Dr Matthew Tocheri, the lead researcher in the Hobbit wrist study explains why the wrist ... Read more..

Wrist gives hobbit theory the flick

Friday, September 21st, 2007 Posted in Indonesia | No Comments »

21 September 2007 (ABC News in Science) - Here's a news piece about the wrist study which sums up the news quite nicely in layman terms. There's also a dissenting ... Read more..



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