Archeology S - Homo Floresiensis essay
Via New Scientist, 30: We are approaching the anniversary of the discovery of Homo floresiensis. This article by Paige Madison is behind a paywall, but you should definitely read her excellent paper Tug-of-War: Bones and Stones as Scientific Objects in Postcolonial Indonesia, which contextualizes the controversy over the origins of hominids on the remote Indonesian island of Flores , remains highly controversial. These specimens may represent a new hominin species, Homo floresiensis, descended from a local, Homo Floresiensis, nicknamed hobbit because it was only a meter tall, is an extinct species of fossil human that lived on the island of Flores, Indonesia, during the Pleistocene. Floresiensis is still shrouded in quite a bit of mystery. First excavated at Liang Bua Cave CE, these people were originally thought to have lived. H. floresiensis is a Homo erectus. The thickness and shape of the cranial vault suggest a relationship between H. floresiensis and H. erectus Humeral torsion is much lower than that of H. sapiens where the average for H. sapiens is closer, - 140, this is more consistent with the Nariokotome Boy than the average for a typical one,