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A media conference held at the Australian Museum in Sydney on Thursday 28 October, announced that a near-complete skeleton of a previously undiscovered species of human had been found on the Indonesian island of Flores, raising images of a lost world of “little people” that co-existed with modern humans until relatively recently.
The University of Wollongong and the University of New England are among the overall research team involved in what is being heralded as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in 100 years.
Pictured with artist Peter Schouten's life-size impression of what the smallest species of human ever discovered looked like are (from left) Professor Bert Roberts; PhD researcher Kira Westaway; and Dr Chris Turney from the University of Wollongong.
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