Jatmiko, an Indonesian archaeologist, examines a prehistoric stone spall Sept. 14, 2009, at Liang Bua cave excavation site where the remains of Homo floresiensis were discovered in Ruteng ...

Paleoanthropology is among the most quarrelsome of fields, so it is no surprise that researchers have gone to war over the remarkable bones discovered in a Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of ...

The species, related to modern humans, was first discovered in 2003 at the Liang Bua cave on Indonesia’s island of Flores, after which they are named. Archaeologists found that the small-brained ...