Residing on the Indonesian island of Flores until around ... and is therefore widely referred to as "the Hobbit". A wizard - as the saying goes - is never late, yet the Hobbits of Flores show ...

Jatmiko, an Indonesian archaeologist ... the coordinator of the hobbit dig. For example, he said, it may turn out that Homo erectus evolved in Asia. “For many people, this was totally unexpected ...

SCIENTISTS believe that a species of hobbit people thought to have vanished ... were first discovered through skeletons found on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003. They walked around on ...

“However, the new fossils strongly suggest that the Hobbit story did indeed begin when a group of the early Asian hominins known as Homo erectus somehow became isolated on this remote Indonesian ...