Hobbit Controversy

"The scientific controversy around Our Lady of Flores, (Lady of Flowers), aka the hobbit, continues... The hobbit is definitely a new species of human, related to but separate from Homo sapiens, concludes a study by a Florida State University team published yesterday in...

The Mystery of the Human Hobbit: BBC Horizon Video 2005

"Is the hobbit a new human species or nothing more than a modern human with a crippling deformity?"Watch the video hereFrom the BBC website:On the far-flung island of Flores, in the Indonesian archipelago, a team of archaeologists happened upon a tiny 18,000-year...

Hobbit cave digs set to restart

"Archaeologists who found the remains of human "Hobbits" have gained permission to restart excavations at the cave where the specimens were found. Indonesian officials have blocked access to the cave since 2005, following a dispute over the bones. But Professor Richard "Bert"...

Flores: What Is the Hobbit?

An open access/free PLoS Biology article by the science writer Tabitha M. Powledge**.Who - or what - is Homo floresiensis? (Wiki) The tiny hominid bones, which a joint Australian-Indonesian team unearthed in 2003 on the Indonesian island of Flores, have quickly become as...

Our Lady of Flores Redux

"A new update on the hobbit controversy Homo Floresiensis: Two Years Out I dislike the hobbit dwarf label so,as I have said before since predominately female remains have been identified perhaps the species should have been called Our Lady of Flores.(La nostra signora dei...