Homo floresiensis Unearthed at Liang Bua Cave

On September 2, 2003, a joint Australian-Indonesian team led by Mike Morwood excavated a nearly complete small-statured skeleton from Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. Standing about one meter tall with a cranial capacity of 380-420 cubic centimeters, the specimen represented a previously unknown hominin species: Homo floresiensis. Stone tools at the site range from 190,000 to 50,000 years ago. The species' small size may reflect insular dwarfism on the isolated island.