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Homo floresiensis (/ f l ɔːr ˈ ɛ z iː ˌ ɛ n. s ɪ s /), also known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit" (after the fictional species), is an extinct species of small archaic humans that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago.
The island of Flores had always been volcanically active, and the hobbit had lived there for the nearly 1 million years. More likely, it was a combination of factors.
A recent analysis of fossils belonging to Homo floresiensis found at the Mata Menge site on Flores supports the idea that the hobbits were a dwarfed version of the extinct species Homo erectus ...
Dubbed the “Hobbits of Flores,” findings date the species’ existence to as late as 700,000 years ago, up until about 50,000 years ago. ... Man City's Ederson sets assist record for ...
Scientists don't yet know whether the hobbits shrank from an earlier, taller human species called Homo erectus that lived in the area, or from an even more primitive human predecessor. More research – and fossils – are needed to pin down the hobbits’ place in human evolution, said Matt Tocheri, an anthropologist at Canada's Lakehead ...
Homo floresiensis (/ f l ɔːr ˈ ɛ z iː ˌ ɛ n. s ɪ s /), also known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit" (after the fictional species), is an extinct species of small archaic humans that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago.
The discoverers have called members of the diminutive species hobbits, after J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional race of roughly the same height. In the island's mythology there were common references to Ebu Gogo , a small furry man, even into the 19th century.
In 2003 the excavation team discovered what was to be named a new species, Homo floresiensis in the limestone cave of Liang Bua (first excavated by Verhoeven), on the Indonesian island of Flores. Morwood also produced important work on rock art, most notably his book, Visions of the Past:The archaeology of Australian Aboriginal art. His ...