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In October 2004, a team of Australian and Indonesian anthropologists led by Mike Morwood and Raden Pandji Soejono stunned the world with their announcement of the discovery of the first example of a new species of human, Homo floresiensis, which they nicknamed the "Hobbit." This was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy, however, but a tool-using, fire-making, cooperatively hunting person.

Dr. Mike Morwood is a professor at the Geoquest Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia, and formerly taught at University of New England in Armidale. In addition to his work in Indonesia, he is an expert in Australian Aboriginal rock art and the author of Visions from the Past: The Archaeology of Australian Aboriginal Art. Penny Van Oosterzee has twice won Australia's prestigious Eureka Science Book Prize.