{"id":1894,"date":"2004-10-31T13:18:04","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T17:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/10\/31\/\/"},"modified":"2004-10-31T13:18:04","modified_gmt":"2004-10-31T17:18:04","slug":"1894","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/1894\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/science\/2004-10-27-hobbitts_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA\" rel=\"external\">Hobbit-size skull discovered on remote Indonesian island<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp?id=ns99996588\" rel=\"external\"><em>(photo of skull)<\/em><\/a><br \/><strong>&#8220;Probably this is one of the most important discoveries in hominid paleontological history,&#8221; says University of Pittsburgh paleontologist Jeffrey Schwartz. &#8220;This is just about the wildest thing anyone could have discovered.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/tiny_skull.jpg\" alt=\"Ebu's skull is much smaller than that of a modern human\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>The team led by Peter Brown of Australia&#8217;s University of New England describes the being as a human relative, or hominid, that stood less than 40 inches tall. Except for a snout, she had a human face and a brain one-third the size of ours. She was older than 30, judging from her worn teeth and bone structure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>How do they know it wasn&#8217;t a tall person with a very small head?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hobbit-size skull discovered on remote Indonesian island (photo of skull)&#8220;Probably this is one of the most important discoveries in hominid paleontological history,&#8221; says University of Pittsburgh paleontologist Jeffrey Schwartz. &#8220;This is just about the wildest thing anyone could have discovered.&#8221; The team led by Peter Brown of Australia&#8217;s University of New England describes the being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}