The original hobbit fossils date back to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. ... The fossils were found on the top of a ribbon-shaped, pebbly sandstone layer in a small stream.

This early hobbit was 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) shorter than the original Homo floresiensis specimen, an almost complete skeleton found in the Liang Bua cave — around 75 kilometers (46.6 miles ...

The fossils in this new study were found further away from the Liang Bua cave, in Mata Menge. This open-air site is about 46 miles east of the cave in sparsely populated tropical grasslands of the ...

Hobbit Fossils Found? Ancestors of a hobbit-like species of humans may have colonized the Indonesian island of Flores as far back as a million years ago, much earlier than thought.

Anthropologists found smaller, more ancient bones than before The remains of H. floresiensis (pronounced flor-eh-see-en-sis) found in 2004 were dated to about 60,000 years old , about 10,000 years ...

The human story became a bit more complicated about two decades ago. In 2003, archaeologists excavating inside Liang Bua, a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, found a tiny humanlike skull ...

The so-called "hobbit" fossils are raising questions about human evolution and how these tiny ancient people came to be.

This early hobbit was 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) shorter than the original Homo floresiensis specimen, an almost complete skeleton found in the Liang Bua cave — around 75 kilometers (46.6 miles ...