Wednesday Rojak #5

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 by describing the wrist bones of homo floresiensis as primitive, descending from an earlier hominin offshoot. Read about:

• Kambiz Kamrani takes a closer look at the bone analyses outlined in the study.
• The Cabinet of Wonders takes a step back to comment on the dynamics of opinion about the hobbit in Hobbits? It’s all in the wrist.
• While Kris points out that between a new species of human or deformed, the hobbit might not even be human.
• And for an overview of early human migrations through the world, TuLu Research posts a small map and timeline for your reference.
• On an afterthought, 900 ft Jesus thinks that the whole Hobbit affair should really mess with creationists’ heads.

Of course, there’s some other stuff in Southeast Asia too, like:

• Andy Brouwer muses about a stolen Buddhist sculpture from a small Angkoran temple Daun Tri.
• Still in Cambodia, Jeremie and Rita write about the Bayon, the royal temple of Angkor Thom.

In this series of weekly rojaks (published on Wednesdays) I’ll feature other sites in the blogosphere that are of related to archaeology in Southeast Asia. Got a recommendation for the next Wednesday rojak? Email me