New Human

Taylor & Francis

A New HumanThe Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the \""Hobbits\"" of Flores, Indonesia, Updated Paperback Edition\nAuthor(s): Mike Morwood, Penny van Oosterzee\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138403574, 978-1138403574\nSynopsis\nIn the most revolutionary archaeological find of the new century, an international team of archaeologists led by Mike Morwood discovered a new, diminutive species of human on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed theHobbit, this was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy. The three foot tall skeleton with a brain the size of a chimpanzees was a tool-using, fire-making, cooperatively hunting person who inhabited Flores alongside modern humans as recently as 13,000 years ago. This book is Morwoods description of this monumental discovery and the intense study that has been undertaken to validate his view of its relationship to our species. He chronicles the bitter debates over .