All language subtitles for 12 youtube Hobbit histories_ the origins of Homo floresiensis [360p]

this 9 millimeter wide fragment of tiny Mola

was the first evidence of an ancient

equally tiny human

it was found in a recent archaeological dig

on an island in Indonesia

and sheds new light

on the origins of the creatures known as hobbits

back in 2,004

strange bones were discovered in Liangbaua Cave

on the island of Flores

with remarkably small skulls

and estimated to be just over a metre tall

the hobbits were a new and unique species

of ancient human

but where did they come from

and how did they end up so small

that Vandenberg and his colleagues

have been trying to find out

in 2014 they were digging at a site

50 km away from Liangbour Cave

in a layer of rock 650,000 years older

they were looking for the hobbits ancestors

we've been working here for more than 20 years

we have already took 32 trenches

and this is now the one where we finally got

for sales of a fossil hominin

my PSD student make a postmanning room

she was the first one to recognize

this fossil as a molar of a hominin

and then a couple of days later

we found this piece of mandable

this is mandable of an adult individual

and it's very small

it's even smaller than

a little bit smaller than amophoriciansis from liangbua

the fact that the hobbits were so small

LED many to believe

that they must have evolved from one of our smaller

more primitive ancestors

but these new fossils look much more like Homo erectus

a more recent

larger brained relative of modern humans

this means that the hobbits bodies and brains

must have shrunk dramatically

Gert and others think that living on an island

with limited food could have driven this change

the brain size of hypoplasiensis is very small

the size of a sympanzee

but they made stone tools and they walked upright

so maybe they just didn't need such a big brain

because a brain is

is a very expensive organ

and maybe a smaller brain might work as well here

in an island setting

but what is clear as they made stone tools

so they were not stupid

we can only speculate on the evolution and intelligence

of these island bound relatives of ours

but Gert is sure that the Hobbit and its ancestors

are redefining what it means to be human