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Modern Man Blamed For Demise Of ’little Hobbits’Modern humans wiped out the hobbit-sized people who lived on the Indonesian island of Flores until 12,000 years ago, new research suggests. In a separate development, excavations are set to restart for the first time in almost three years in the cave where the remains of the tiny new species were found. Indonesian officials had blocked further research there because of a heated public dispute over the precious bones. Mike Morwood, a co-leader of the Australian and Indonesian discovery team, said more fossils were likely to be unearthed at Liang Bua when the team returned mid-year. "Anywhere we dig in the cave we expect to find evidence of the little hominids," he said. Professor Morwood, who has written a new book with Penny Van Oosterzee, The Discovery of the Hobbit, said he was most excited by the prospect of making new discoveries during planned field work in Sulawesi, which will begin in March. This island was the most likely source of the hobbits ancestors. "My guess is that hominids arrived on Sulawesi a long time before a small group were somehow washed out to sea, to be deposited on Flores," he said. Remains of at least 13 of the little species, Homo floresiensis, who were about a metre tall, were unearthed in Liang Bua between 2001 and 2004. DEBORAH SMITH Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationWorld Briefing | Asia: Uzbekistan: Europeans Lift Some Sanctions...Protesters mark Iraq anniversary as John McCain meets Gordon Brown... Evangelicals Join Interfaith Effort to Write Rules for Conversions... Cyclone ’kills 243’ after ripping through Burma... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Modern Man Blamed For Demise Of ’little Hobbits’ |
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