{"id":924,"date":"2005-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2005\/10\/11\/new-hobbit-bones-bolster-separate-species-claim\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T07:48:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:48:55","slug":"new-hobbit-bones-bolster-separate-species-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2005\/10\/11\/new-hobbit-bones-bolster-separate-species-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u201chobbit\u201d bones bolster separate species claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New \u201chobbit\u201d bones bolster separate species claim<br \/> 13:51 11 October 2005<br \/> NewScientist.com news service<br \/> Andy Coghlan<\/p>\n<p>Newly discovered bones have strengthened claims that small human-like \u201chobbits\u201d roamed Indonesia as recently as 12,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The bones come from Liang Bu, the site on the island of Flores where the first find was made. The skull of a small female hominin, labelled LB1, was found in 2003 and announced a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The new finds include the right arm bones of LB1, plus a jawbone and several limb bones from others of the same species. \u201cWe now have evidence for at least nine individuals,\u201d says Michael Morwood of the University of New England in New South Wales, Australia, who is head of the excavation team.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8128\">http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8128<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New \u201chobbit\u201d bones bolster separate species claim 13:51 11 October 2005 NewScientist.com news service Andy Coghlan Newly discovered bones have strengthened claims that small human-like \u201chobbits\u201d roamed Indonesia as recently as 12,000 years ago.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,141],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-news-clips","tag-evolution-and-human-migration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-eU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3280,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/3280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}