Homo Floresiensis Or The Hobbit

Evidence of the species Homo Floresiensis was first found in a Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia. The remains are currently thought to date “from about 100,000 to 60,000 years old, but archaeological evidence (mostly associated stone tools) suggests H. floresiensis lived at Liang Bua from at least 190,000 to 50,000 years ago” (Dorey, 2016) with the revised dates being published in Nature, March 2016.
Homo Floresiensis or “the hobbit” were “nicknamed for the diminutive heroes in J.R.R. Tolkien's famous novels” (Hoffman, 2016) due to the 3ft stature and large feet of the skeletons.
The hobbit skeletons were discovered in 2003 by a joint Australian and Indonesian team that incldeed Dr Peter Brown, Dr Michael Morwood, Thomas Sutikna,