New book on the Flores hominid

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 Posted in Books, Indonesia, Paleontology | No Comments »

23 May 2007 (stuff.co.nz) - A book review on the latest book about the Flores Hominid, also nicknamed the Hobbit, written by Mike Morwood, one of the archaeologists who discovered ... Read more..

World Heritage status for Hobbit site?

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 Posted in Indonesia, UNESCO World Heritage | No Comments »

02 May 2007 (The Australian) - The discoverer of the Flores hominid is preparing to submit a proposal to list the Liang Bua cave, where the dimunitive hominid is found, ... Read more..

Small skull, huge controversy

Monday, April 30th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia, Paleontology, Prehistory | 3 Comments »

c. 23 April 2007 (Research|Penn State) Research|Penn State, an online magazine by the Pennsylvana State University has an interesting feature-length article on Dr Bob Eckhart, who leads the charge in ... Read more..

New evidence for Island Dwarfism with implications for Homo floresiensis

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia, Paleontology, Prehistory | No Comments »

18 April 2007 (Daily Telegraph and Biology Letters) - Thanks to Liz Price for flagging me to this piece of news, a new study published in the Royal Society journal ... Read more..

FSU anthropologist confirms ‘Hobbit’ indeed a separate species

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia, Paleontology, Prehistory | No Comments »

30 January 2007 (Eureka Alerts, BBC) - A new development in the Hobbit debate, paleoneurologist Dean Falk from Florida State University concluded that the Hobbit is indeed a new species, ... Read more..

Tiny bronze commands a giant price

Saturday, November 4th, 2006 Posted in Indonesia, Museums | No Comments »

03 November 2006 (Sydney Morning Herald) - A feature on the Artsmart column about the National Gallery of Australia's $4 million acquisition of The Bronze Weaver, a statuette dating from ... Read more..

Compelling evidence demonstrates that ‘Hobbit’ fossil does not represent a new species of hominiddence demonstrates that ‘Hobbit’ fossil does not represent a new species of hominid

Friday, October 13th, 2006 Posted in Indonesia, Prehistory | No Comments »

9 October 2006 (EurekAlert) - An upcoming article in the November edition of The Anatomical Record aims to definitively put the debate on the Flores Man to rest. Compelling evidence demonstrates ... Read more..



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