Kathy Hoang, Rebecca Dilella and Madeleine Yacoub

Homo Floresiensis
Figure One: Skull - Science Photo Library Source:
http://www.sciencephoto.com/images/imagePopUpDetails.html?pop=1&id=6
94380207&pviewid=&country=10&search=cranium&matchtype=EXACT
Fossil: Who Discovered It, How and what was found?

Peter Brown
Michael Moorwood
Colleagues
Scientist Lahr
Scientist Foley Figure 2: Mike Morwood, Thomas Sutikna and Bert Roberts
Sorce: http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/thylacoleo-1st/

Skull
Arm bone
Jaw pieces
Other bonesovered the
Figure 3: Mike Morwood with floresiensis skull
fossil and how they Source:
http://www.wherelightmeetsdark.com/index.php?module=fatcat&fatcat%5Buser%5D=
discover viewCategory&fatcat_id=89&module_title=newswatch
Fossil: When where the fossils found?

A cave in
Flores, Indonesia
2003. found

Figure 4: Lead excavator Benyamin Tarus recovers a

Stegodon jaw from Liang Bua cave
Source:
http://djuna.photoshelter.com/gallery-
image/Hobbits/G0000ZQ7jeC.BIVE/I00009wdBUXawv7k
Fossil: New species or Microcephalic?

Features indicate new species.

Figure 5: H. floresiensis (left) compared to a human Microcephalic

(right)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis
 Physical: Bone Structure and Physical Appearance
Extreamly small in
stature

Figure 6: H. Floresiensis head and skull

Source: http://livelikedirt.blogspot.com/2011/01/hunt-for-homo-
floresiensis-dna.html

small bodies
small skulls
some primative features
Figure 7: H. Floresiensis vs. H. Sapien
source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/tag/mystery/page/5/
 Physical: Brain Function and Social Habbits

small skull means

they had small
brain however they
used fire, tools and
hunted in groups
Figure 8: H. Floresiensis and a freshly killed pygmie elephant (artist impression)
Source: http://www.sciencephoto.com/images/download_lo_res.html?id=694380155
 Physical: Any Other Specific Adaptations

Figure 9: H. floresiensis vs. modern human trapezoid bone

Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12667-hobbit-wrist-
bones-suggest-a-distinct-species.html

Arms designed for swinging but

also capable of tool making
although trapezoid would've
Figurre 10: H. floresiensis skeleton
source: http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/05/27/
4222_ntnews.html
complicated this
 Environmental: Inhabitence

Lived on the Island of Flores in

Indonesia approximately
13,000 to 95,000 years ago.

Figure 11:Liang Bua Caves http://djuna.photoshelter.com/gallery-

image/Hobbits/G0000ZQ7jeC.BIVE/I0000wggVhIYZA_g

Particularly inhabited the

eastern coast and the Liang
Bua Caves and region

Figure 12:Flores Island http://djuna.photoshelter.com/gallery-

image/Hobbits/G0000ZQ7jeC.BIVE/I0000wggVhIYZA_g
Environmental: Climate and Landscape
Tropical and Humid
Conditions
Monsoon seasons- dry and
wet
Coastal breezes

Coastal landscape which

consisted of vast amounts of
flora and mountainous off the
coast

Figure 11:Female Homo Floresiensis

modelhttp://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/new-look-
hobbits/
Environmental: Who else lived on the island and
whad they eat?

Shared the Island and ate:

Komo Dragons
Large Island and prehistoric Rodents
Goannas
Pygmy and Stegodon Elephants
Omnivore so ate local flora
Om

Believed to have interacted with

Figure 12: Homo Floresiensis
Homo Sapien or modern man Hunting
http://www.georgehernandez.com/
between 5,000-35,000 years ago. h/aablog/2004/11.asp
 Environmental: Tools and Hunting

UseUs Made stone tools similar to

spears and rocks for hunting.
Made fires for warmth and
cooking kill.

Hunted in groups due to them

Figure 13: Stone Tools
http://www.weltbildung.com/homo-floresiensis.htm being small and unable to carry
large kill.
Environmental: How they got to Flores

Unsure exactly but believed that

could have swam, just ended up
here or even created primitive
rafts and ventured until they found
stable land.
Island Dwarfing and Size Theories
Many theroies including:
Microcephaly
Insular/island dwarfing
Laron Syndrome
Endemic cretinism

Figure 15: Laron Syndrome

Source: http://doctordavidsblog.blogspot.com/

Figure 14: Microcephalic

Source: http://blurredproductions.wordpress.com
/2008/05/22/crossing-the-line-freaks/
Bibliography

Please see data sheet for references and image references

under image.