[Symposium] Holocene Bioarchaeology at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia)
The Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology is having their annual meeting next week, and they have a special symposium on ...
Tag: Flores (island)
Island in East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
[Paper] Evolutionary history and adaptation of a human pygmy population of Flores Island, Indonesia
A new paper in Science examining the genomes of modern pygmies in the island of Flores found similarities with Neanderthal ...
Indonesian archaeologist recalls Flores ‘hobbit’ fossil find 15 years on, and what it meant for him and Indonesian archaeology
via South China Morning Post, 23 April 2018: Source: Indonesian archaeologist recalls Flores ‘hobbit’ fossil find 15 years on, and ...
Can Rat Bones Solve an Island Mystery?
via Sapiens, 30 Nov 2017: Homo floresiensis thrived on the island of Flores for thousands of years—and then vanished. One ...
Evidence of fire-making in Liang Bua
A microstratigraphic study of the Hobbit cave, Liang Bua, reveals the use of fire between 41,000 and 24,000 years ago. ...
Another Hobbit paper argues against Down Syndrome theory
While the excitement was brewing over the discovery of 700,000-year-old hobbit bones in Flores, another paper published at the same ...
Possible Hobbit ancestors found in Flores, dating 700,000 years
A new paper out in Nature last month detail the find of tiny hominid bones in Flores, home of H. ...
Hobbits older than expected
A new paper in Nature has revised the dates of the Hobbit, once thought to be 12,000 years old, to ...
Liang Bua popular with tourists seeking the ‘hobbit’
The Liang Bua site in Flores has seen a jump in popularity by foreign tourists due to the discovery of ...
Homo floresiensis museum to be built in Flores
A museum for Homo floresiensis will be built in Ruteng, the capital of Flores this year. Article is in Indonesian. ...
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