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A researcher holds a skull of a Homo floresiensis in Indonesia. This world turned upside down may once have existed on the remote island of Flores, where an international team is trying to shed light on the fossilized 18,000-year-old skeleton of a dwarf cavewoman whose discovery in 2003 was an international sensation.![Bones Found Near Hobbit]()
An archaeologist examines pieces of animal bones found at the Liang Bua cave excavation site where the remains of Homo floresiensis were discovered in Ruteng, Flores island, Indonesia. This world turned upside down may once have existed on the remote island of Flores, where an international team is trying to shed light on the fossilized 18,000-year-old skeleton of a dwarf cavewoman whose discovery in 2003 was an international sensation.![Indonesian Hobbit]()
This artist's rendering created by Peter Schouten shows a dwarf Homo floresiensis that lived on the remote island of Flores in Indonesia between 17,000 and 100,000 years ago.![Homo Floresiensis Skeleton]()
A skeleton of Homo floresiensis that was discovered in Liang Bua cave in Ruteng, Flores island, Indonesia. An international team is trying to shed light on the fossilized 18,000-year-old skeleton whose discovery in 2003 was an international sensation.![Descendant of the Hobbit?]()
80-year-old and four-feet-tall Victor Jehabut, who is often claimed by tour guides as a descendant of Homo floresiensis, dwarf cave-dwellers that roamed Flores island 160,000 years ago, walks in his village in Rampasasa, Indonesia. Jehabut said the rumors of him being related to the hobbits are not true, and that childhood hardship had stunted his growth.![The Search for Hobbits]()
An Indonesian archaeologist examines a stone spall at Liang Bua cave excavation site where the remains of Homo floresiensis were discovered in Ruteng, Flores island, Indonesia.![Digging up the Hobbit]()
Workers labor at the Liang Bua cave excavation site where the remains of Homo floresiensis were discovered in Ruteng, Flores island of Indonesia. This world turned upside down may once have existed on the remote island, where an international team is trying to shed light on the fossilized 18,000-year-old skeleton of a dwarf cavewoman whose discovery in 2003 was an international sensation.![Digging up the Hobbit]()
Australian archaeologist Mike Morwood works at the Liang Bua cave excavation site where the remains of Homo floresiensis were discovered in Ruteng, Flores island, Indonesia.![Digging up the Hobbit]()
Workers labor at the Liang Bua cave excavation site where the remains of Homo floresiensis were discovered in Ruteng, Flores island of Indonesia.![Digging up the Hobbit]()
An Indonesian archaeologist works at the Liang Bua cave excavation site where the remains of Homo floresiensis were discovered in Ruteng, Flores island, Indonesia.Hobbit Fossils Found?
Ancestors of a hobbit-like species of humans may have colonized the Indonesian island of Flores as far back as a million years ago, much earlier than thought.
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