Homo floresiensis skull, Flores skull LB1 (18,000 years)

The Homo floresiensis skull (Flores Skull LB1) was discovered by P. Brown and his team on the island of Flores, Indonesia, in 2003 and reported in Nature in 2004.  A skeleton of this species, which has been designated as female because of characteristics of the pelvis, shows that in maturity she was only about 1m tall.  That such a specimen (which had an unusually small brain capacity -- 380cm³ -- for its body size) was in existence only 18,000 YA could be one of the most important discoveries in decades.  Stone tools were also found at this site.  H. floresiensis is the subject of much debate, particularly about whether it is a new human species or a microcephalic human.  P. Brown et al. originally proposed that the Flores hominid was the result of a long term process of isolation on an island known as "insular dwarfism."

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Model size: 14(L) x 13(W) x 14(H) cm

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