Scientists discovered the first remains of floresiensis, along with stone tools and animal remains, in 2003 at Liang Bua Cave (LB) on Indonesia’s remote Flores Island,
Homo floresiensis, nicknamed “the Hobbit,” was an ancient hominid that lived until at least 17,000 years ago.
Scientists discovered the first remains of floresiensis, along with stone tools and animal remains, in 2003 at Liang Bua Cave on Indonesia’s remote Flores Island, according to a 2004 Nature paper.
This first specimen — a 1.06-meter-tall, 30-year-old adult woman named LB1 — included a nearly complete skull and part of a skeleton, which includes several limb bones, hand and foot bones, and a part of a pelvis according to Nature journal.
“This skeleton makes the specimen quite fascinating,” Mark Collard, a biological anthropologist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, told Live Science
“We don’t have many relevant non-Neanderthal hominid skeletons,” he added.
The tiny LB1 earned the nickname “the Hobbit”, the kind of people Tolkien imagined in his book of the same name.
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