Kisah penemuan ‘hobbit’ di Indonesia yang merubah wawasan tentang jejak evolusi manusia
Padad episode ini, kami berbicara dengan Thomas Sutikna, arkeolog di University of Wollongong, Australia yang juga merupakan salah satu anggota tim legendaris yang menemukan Homo floresiensis.
Excavations in Liang Bua, a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Flores.
Smithsonian Digitization Program Office Liang Bua Team
New excavations at an Indonesian cave have pushed back the time the ‘hobbits’ disappeared to about 50,000 years ago.
Thomas Sutikna holds the skull of LB1, the type specimen of the ‘Hobbit’, Homo floresiensis.
Indonesian National Centre for Archaeology (ARKENAS)/University of Wollongong
Ten years ago today in Australia and Indonesia the scientific world was turned on its head. By a very small head, as it happens. We were part of the original joint Australian-Indonesian research team involved…