The skeleton of the Liang Bua hominid, Homo floresiensis, is a mixed bag of characteristics that until now have been associated with very different stages of human evolution.
One of the most striking characteristics of LB1, or Ebu, is her height. At around 1 metre tall she is far shorter even than modern Pygmies, who range from 1.3 to 1.4 metres, and roughly the same size as the relatively primitive hominid Australopithecus.
But australopithecines, such as the famous Lucy, lived in Africa between 1.4 and 4.5 million years ago, whereas the Liang Bua hominid lived from between 74,000 and 95,000…
