Riddle of the Human Hobbits : An Equinox Special

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Dr Martin Brookes

April 2005

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Bones of contention
www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/
0,13026,1388500,00.html
The discovery of a new species of human astounded the world, but is it what it seems? Read this fascinating article by John Vidal, who went to remotest Flores to find out.

Flores find
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/
0504/feature1/multimedia.html
Scientists believe the small skeleton found inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores may represent a new human species, Homo floresiensis. Check out the video reconstructions of this tiny hominid.

Hobbit-like human ancestor found in Asia
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/
10/1027_041027_homo_floresiensis.html
Article from National Geographic on the recent discovery of the Homo floresiensis skeletons. The article has accompanying photographs.

Prominent hominid fossils
www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/specimen.html
Offers a list of hominid fossils important for their scientific or historic interest. All are accompanied by photographs or drawings, plus information on where and when the discovery was made.

Q&A: Indonesian hominid find
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech
/3960001.stm
BBC online looks at some of the questions that the recent discovery of Flo raises.

Books

	Adventures in the Bone Trade: The race to discover human ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression by Jon E Kalb (Springer-Verlag, 2000) Over the past 25 years, a stream of fossil and artefact discoveries in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia has produced the longest single record of human ancestors in the world. This book chronicles the exploration of this unique desert area, focusing on the 1970s when the valley was mapped and many fossils and archaeological sites were discovered. Get this book
	The Human Story: Our evolution from prehistoric ancestors to today by Christopher Sloan (National Geographic Society, 2004) Drawing on evidence from fossils and DNA testing, this authoritative overview of human evolution goes back 6 million years to a time when humans and chimpanzees had a common ancestor. Get this book

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