{"id":2683,"date":"2004-11-01T19:25:37","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T23:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/11\/01\/indonesia-teeming-with-hobbits\/"},"modified":"2004-11-01T19:25:37","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T23:25:37","slug":"indonesia-teeming-with-hobbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/11\/01\/indonesia-teeming-with-hobbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia Teeming with Hobbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4080'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/hobbitskull.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"246\"><\/p>\n<p>It sounds too incredible to be true, but this is not a hoax. A species of tiny<br \/>\nhuman has been discovered, which lived on the remote Indonesian island of Flores<br \/>\njust 18,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have so far unearthed remains from eight individuals who were just<br \/>\none metre tall, with grapefruit-sized skulls. These astonishing little people,<br \/>\nnicknamed &#8216;hobbits&#8217;, made tools, hunted tiny elephants and lived at the same<br \/>\ntime as modern humans who were colonizing the area.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/specials\/flores\/index.html\">complete<br \/>\n      Nature special<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds too incredible to be true, but this is not a hoax. A species of tiny human has been discovered, which lived on the remote Indonesian island of Flores just 18,000 years ago. Researchers have so far unearthed remains &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/11\/01\/indonesia-teeming-with-hobbits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}