The small, chinless “Hobbits” of Indonesia, cousins of modern humans also known as Homo floresiensis (“Flores Man”), turn out to be older than scientists had previously thought, according to a team of scientists at Australia’s University of Wollongong.
According to the university’s Web site, previous research by a joint Indonesian-Australian team in the Soa Basin of Flores in 2001 unearthed stone tools in ancient deposits dated to 880,000 years ago. This appeared to provide a maximum age for the arrival on the island of the ancestors of the so-called “hobbits,” who stood about three-and-a-half feet tall, had no chin and whose body types were characterized by a small brain and thick leg bones.
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