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A tiny arm bone suggests that the ancient human species known as Homo floresiensis, or the "hobbit," only became small after arriving on an Indonesian island a million years ago.
The Homo floresiensis, discovered in 2003 from the Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, has been enigmatic, with much still unknown about their origins and development
Liang Bua cave
Liang Bua is a limestone cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia
Also referred as Hobbit cave
The cave demonstrated archaeological and paleontological potential in the 1950s and 1960s as described by the Dutch missionary and archaeologist Theodor L. Verhoeven
In September 2003, an Indonesian field team and its coordinator of the excavation team, Thomas Sutikna , uncovered the first indications of a skull.
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