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A New Human - The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia, Updated Paperback Edition (Hardcover)
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A New Human - The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia, Updated Paperback Edition (Hardcover)
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In the most revolutionary archaeological find of the new century,
an international team of archaeologists led by Mike Morwood
discovered a new, diminutive species of human on the remote
Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed theHobbit, this was no
creation of Tolkien's fantasy. The three foot tall skeleton with a
brain the size of a chimpanzee's was a tool-using, fire-making,
cooperatively hunting person who inhabited Flores alongside modern
humans as recently as 13,000 years ago. This book is Morwoods
description of this monumental discovery and the intense study that
has been undertaken to validate his view of its relationship to our
species. He chronicles the bitter debates over Homo Floresiensis,
the objections (some spiteful) of colleagues, the theft and damage
of some of the specimens, and the endless battle against government
and academic bureaucracies that hindered his research. This updated
paperback edition contains an epilogue that reports on the most
recent debates, findings, and analyses of this amazing discovery.
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