The bizarre dental question

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Indonesia | No Comments »

This story of the Hobbit tooth should have come out earlier, but I seem to have missed it out. This was what's been causing the recent Hobbit tooth furore over ... Read more..

The hobbit trap

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Indonesia | No Comments »

A review of The Hobbit Trap, a book about the Flores hominid that was released last week which alleges that the Hobbit skeleton shows signs of having gone through dental ... Read more..

The Hobbit’s dental work

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Indonesia | 1 Comment »

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 #24

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Cambodia, General Archaeology, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peripheral Southeast Asia, Singapore, Thailand, Wednesday Rojak | 1 Comment »

What do Dungeons & Dragons have in common with ancient Indonesian ruins, Malay dances and explosion of the Toba volcano? Why, they're all in this week's edition of rojak - ... Read more..

Palau skeletons and Homo floresiensis on National Public Radio

Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Indonesia, Peripheral Southeast Asia, Podcasts | No Comments »

The National Public Radio's Science Friday programme has a 12-minute interview with Lee Berger, the principal investigator of the Palau skeletons. Find out what this find means for the homo ... Read more..

More “Hobbits” found, in Micronesia now

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Indonesia, Peripheral Southeast Asia | No Comments »

Following the suggestion from last week's controversial paper about the nature of the Flores Hobbits comes a new discovery that may argue that the Hobbits are just really small humans. ... Read more..

News of the week: Yet another Hobbit tale

Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in Indonesia | No Comments »

This week's been abuzz with another Hobbit story again, this time saying that the diminutive bones belong to malnourished humans rather than a new species. The paper, written by two ... Read more..



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