Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0666607
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The Flores hobbit - Homo floresiensis or microcephalic eastern Indonesian? The hobbit is so controversial as it implies that a tiny hominin with a miniature brain coexisted for 30,000 years with modern humans in our region. This would have immense, fundamental implications for understanding the human colonisation of our region and the role of brain size in human evolution. Our research will determine whether the alternative explanation of microcephalic pathology is viable. If so the hobbit would still be of unique signficance as the only known microcephalic hunter-gatherer who had survived to adulthood. The role of Australian scientists in spearheading the hobbit discovery places a high priority on resolving the debate objectively.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2006
End Date: 12-2006
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $40,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene | Neurosciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Anthropology | Biological (Physical) Anthropology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Skeletal system and disorders (incl. arthritis) | Biological sciences |
