A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits' ancestors were even smaller

Authors

Gerrit D. van den Bergh, University of WollongongFollow
Adam R. Brumm, Griffith UniversityFollow

RIS ID

107773

Publication Details

van den Bergh, G. D. & Brumm, A. R. (2016). A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits' ancestors were even smaller. The Conversation, 9 June 1-5.

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Abstract

It was back in October 2004 when archaeologists first unveiled the partial skeleton of a tiny, small-brained hominin previously unknown to science, now known as Homo floresiensis.