A massive, centuries-long drought may have driven the extinction of the “hobbits” of Flores. Climate records preserved in cave formations show rainfall plummeted just as the small human species ...
When people hear the word “Hobbit,” they think of fantasy — Tolkien, Middle-earth, fiction. But in 2003, archaeologists uncovered something that felt impossible: a real human species barely over one ...
Biological anthropology is the subdiscipline of anthropology that investigates the origins and evolution of hominins. Techniques include both the analysis of fossils and the behaviour, morphology and ...
Discovered in Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, Homo floresiensis stood just over one meter tall and ...