Research Catalog

Title

A new human : the startling discovery and strange story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia / Mike Morwood and Penny van Oosterzee.

Author

Morwood, M. J. (Mike J.)

Publication

New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Van Oosterzee, Penny.

Description

xiii, 256 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

In October 2004, a team of Australian and Indonesian anthropologists led by Mike Moorwood and Raden Pandji Soejono stunned the world with their announcement of the discovery of the first example of a new species of human, "Homo floresiensis," which the nicknamed the "Hobbit." Standing only three feet tall with brains a little larger than a can of cola, the Hobbits forced anthropologists and everyone to reconsider what it means to be human.

Subject

• Fossil hominids > Flores Island
• Fossil hominids > Kimberley (W.A.)
• Pygmies > Flores Island
• Pygmies > Kimberley (W.A.)
• Human beings > Migrations
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Flores Island
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Kimberley (W.A.)
• Human remains (Archaeology) > Flores Island
• Human remains (Archaeology) > Kimberley (W.A.)
• Biological Evolution
• Flores Island (Indonesia) > Antiquities
• Kimberley (W.A.) > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-256).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. In the footsteps of the father -- 2. Stories from Cold Cave -- 3. Planning the project -- 4. A body of evidence -- 5. The devil of dogma -- 6. Out of Asia -- 7. Islands in the evolutionary stream -- 8. The reactions -- 9. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

ISBN

• 9780060899080
• 0060899085

LCCN

^^2006052267

OCLC

76481584

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library