‘Hobbit’ humans still exist on remote island, Canadian anthropologist contends0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- May 26, 2022
Gregory Forth spoke with 30 locals who say they glimpsed hobbit-like humans on Indonesia’s Flores island
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Identity of mysterious ‘Hobbits’ possibly found0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 7, 2021
The extinct human lineage nicknamed “the hobbit” may not be a distant relative of modern humans as previously thought. Instead, hobbits may be members of the mysterious close relatives of modern humans known as Denisovans, and may have interbred with ancestors of modern humans on the islands of Southeast Asia, researchers say.
The “Hobbit” at 150
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 23, 2019
A shocking discovery made a decade and a half ago is changing our understanding of human evolution
‘Hobbit’ human story gets a twist, thanks to thousands of rat bones0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 15, 2019
An abundance of rodent remains adds new clues to the fate of the tiny human relative Homo floresiensis on the Indonesian island of Flores.
Mystery human hobbit ancestor may have been first out of Africa0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 24, 2017
The tiny Indonesian hominin may have descended from a species that left Africa 2 million years ago
The ancient ‘hobbits’ of Indonesia were 600,000 years older than previously thought0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- February 25, 2017
New research says that the tiny, hobbit-like Homo floresiensis evolved much earlier, and were much tinier, than previously thought — shedding new light on human evolution.
Diminutive ‘Hobbit’ people vanished earlier than previously known0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 4, 2016
The question is, ‘Would the Hobbits have become extinct if humans had never made landfall on Flores?’
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