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9 results for "Liang Bua"

L_1_17 Verified Genetics & Origins

L_1_17 — Homo Floresiensis

Homo floresiensis is one of the most controversial hominin discoveries of the 21st century. Found in Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores by Mike Morwood and Thomas Sutikna in September 2003 (announced Octob

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R_2_04 Biology & Evolution

R_2_04 — Homo Floresiensis: The Hobbit Mystery

In 2003, a team of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists discovered a tiny, near-complete hominin skeleton in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia. Designated Homo floresiensis (Brown et al. 2004, Nature)

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F_4_24 Verified Lost Connections

F_4_24 — Homo floresiensis: The "Hobbit" of Flores

Homo floresiensis — popularly known as "the Hobbit" — is an extinct species of small-bodied hominin whose discovery on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 was one of the most startling finds in the history of paleoan

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M_5_06 Credible Forbidden Archaeology

M_5_06 — Map Controversies: Vinland Map, Zeno Map, Buache Map

Beyond the famous Piri Reis map (treated in M_5_03), several other historical maps have generated intense controversy over whether they depict geographical knowledge that "shouldn't" have existed at the time they were cr

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M_5_07 Speculative Forbidden Archaeology

M_5_07 — Impossible Ancient Maps of Antarctica: Critical Assessment

Among the most provocative claims in alternative history is the assertion that several medieval and Renaissance-era maps depict Antarctica — a continent not officially discovered until 1820 and not mapped until the 20th

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E_2_07 Cataclysms & Chronology

E_2_07 — The 4.2 Kiloyear Event — Bronze Age Climate Catastrophe

The 4.2 kiloyear event (~2200 BCE) was a severe, century-scale aridification episode that constitutes one of the most significant abrupt climate changes of the Holocene. Identified through speleothem, marine sediment, an

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F_2_10 Verified Lost Connections

F_2_10 — Jade Trade Networks — Mesoamerica, China, and New Zealand

Jade — a term covering two distinct minerals, nephrite (calcium-magnesium silicate, $\text{Ca}_2(\text{Mg,Fe})_5\text{Si}_8\text{O}_{22}(\text{OH})_2$) and jadeite (sodium-aluminum silicate, $\text{NaAlSi}_2\text{O}_6$)

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F_4_02 Lost Connections

F_4_02 — Ancient Maps and Impossible Cartography

A handful of historical maps appear to depict geographic features that, according to conventional history, were unknown at the time of their creation. The Piri Reis Map (1513) shows what may be the coastline of Antarctic

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ZA_4_20 Verified Physics & Quantum

ZA_4_20 — Topological Insulators: Quantum Materials with Protected Surface States

Topological insulators (TIs) are a revolutionary class of quantum materials that behave as electrical insulators in their bulk but possess conducting surface or edge states that are protected by the fundamental symmetrie

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