Marked Liang Bua, Flores

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The small humans of Flores

In 2003 archaeologists in Liang Bua cave, on the Indonesian island of Flores, found the bones of a human about a metre tall. Homo floresiensis lived there until about 50,000 years ago.

Date
About 190,000 to 50,000 years agoII · Our species and the Old Stone Age
Place
Liang Bua, Flores · Mata Menge, FloresAsia
Laid out as
A siteOne place known mainly from digging, read layer by layer from the top down.
Lessons
4 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IThe find in Liang Bua
  2. IIA new species, or not?
  3. IIIHow islands change animals
  4. IVGetting the date right

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Mike Morwood
  • Thomas Sutikna
  • Raden Panji Soejono

Objects

  • The LB1 skeleton
  • Stone tools from Liang Bua

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

192,000 years ago to 52,000 years ago. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?