WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname ...
The ancestors of the ancient 'hobbits' who once lived on the Indonesian island of Flores were not the only early hominins to cross deep ocean barriers more than a million years ago. A team of ...
More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...
The tools include sharp-edged stone fragments that the ancient humans made from larger pebbles likely taken from nearby riverbeds. Previous research suggested that the Wallacea archipelago was ...
— -- The setting was a hidden island filled with pint-size men who feasted on pygmy elephants and battled dragons. The story of paleontology's "Hobbits," the extinct human species called Homo ...
NEW HUMAN : THE STARTLING DISCOVERY AND STRANGE STORY OF THE HOBBITS OF FLORES INDONESIA MIKE MORWOOD AND PENNY VAN OOSTERZEE ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) This proportionally bigger brain is what anthropologists argued enabled us and our ...