A gauche, image d'un fragment de mâchoire inférieure en surimpressions sur le crâne d’ Homo floresiensis, comparé avec un crâne d'homme moderne, à droite. Y. Kaifu

La découverte d’un fossile vieux de 700 000 ans montre que les ancêtres du Hobbit étaient encore plus petits

La découverte dans une île indonésienne d’une espèce du genre Homo, Homo florensiensis, dit le Hobbit, rebondit aujourd’hui avec la mise au jour de fossiles qui nous éclairent sur leurs ancêtres.
Image (left) of the Mata Menge lower jaw fragment (SOA-MM4) superimposed on the Homo floresiensis skull (LB1) from Liang Bua, and compared with a modern human skull from the Jomon Period of Japan. Y. Kaifu

A 700,000‑year‑old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller

Fossil finds on another dig on an Indonesian Island show the Hobbits may have been around for much longer than first thought.
A close up of one of the hand stencils found in the prehistoric caves in Indonesia. Kinez Riza

40,000 year old rock art found in Indonesia

Rock art dated to a minimum age of almost 40,000 years has been discovered in the Maros region of southern Sulawesi, Indonesia. This is an incredible result, published in Nature today, because one of the…

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