How Homo Floresiensis Was Discovered

Most folks generally care about the fossils themselves and not the background behind how these discoveries are made. But this one is quite the story.

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1 Brown et al. (2004) A New Small-Bodied Hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia

2 Morwood & Oosterzee (2007) A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the ‘Hobbits’ of Flores.

3 https://fossilhistory.wordpress.com/2...

4 https://historiek-net.translate.goog/...

5 https://fossilhistory.wordpress.com/2...

6 Deakin (2012) Marsupial Genome Sequences: Providing Insight into Evolution and Disease

7 Veevers & McElhinney (1976) The Separation of Australia from Other Continents

8 Morwood et al. (1998) Fission-track ages of stone tools and fossils on the east Indonesian island of Flores

9 https://fossilhistory.wordpress.com/2...

10 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/magaz...

11 Morwood et al. (2004) Archaeology and Age of a New Hominin from Flores in Eastern Indonesia

12 https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...

13 Van Den Bergh et al. (2016) Homo floresiensis-like Fossils from the Early Middle Pleistocene of Flores

14 Détroit et al. (2019) A New Species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines

Hosted, Written, Shot and Edited by: Riley Harnett
Title Sequence by: James Kean (www.facebook.com/keanjamesart)
Special Thanks to: Paige Madison and Ewen Callaway, whose journalistic work provided much of the research this episode was based on.