These fragments, dating to about 700,000 years ago,
- When researchers excavated fossil ized fragments of a rod-shaped bone 3-1/2 inches long at a site called Mata Menge on Indonesia 's Flores island, the pieces initially were bagged and marked "crocodile bone fragment?" It was only later that they realized what they actually were.
While dental and jaw fossils of the same age previously were found at the site, the humerus is the first Hobbit bone beyond the cranium identified at Mata Menge. The similarities between the Mata Menge fossils and Homo erectus fossils from Indonesia's island of Java provide strong evidence that Homo floresiensis descended from that species, the researchers said.
"The discovery offers support to the idea that an evolutionary process known as island dwarfism tinkered with the genetics of a group of large-bodied Homo erectus that somehow made it from the continental landmass of Asia to the isolated island of Flores, perhaps one million years ago or more," said archaeology professor and study co-author Adam Brumm of Griffith University's Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution.
Homo erectus first appeared roughly 1.9 million years ago, possessing body proportions similar to our own, though with a smaller brain.
Hobbit Fossil Extinct Species Homo Sapiens
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