{"id":250,"date":"2007-10-04T21:44:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T04:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2011-05-23T22:36:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T05:36:07","slug":"from-the-shire-to-the-smithsonian-placing-the-hobbit-on-the-human-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"From the Shire to the Smithsonian: Placing hobbits on the human family tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 141px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/researchstories.asu.edu\/stories\/asu-prism-shines-new-light-hobbit-874\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Skull of a Homo floresiensis\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/10\/Homo_floresiensis.jpg\" alt=\"Skull of a Homo floresiensis\" width=\"141\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homo floresiensis. Photo by Ryan Somma.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>J.R.R. Tolkien may have talked up their hairy feet, but it&#8217;s hobbits&#8217; wrists that interest anthropologists. In this article, I look at how an international team of researchers used Arizona State University&#8217;s cutting-edge imaging technology to crack the mystery of <em>Homo floresiensis<\/em>, a three-foot-tall, 18,000-year-old skeleton nicknamed the &#8220;hobbit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/researchstories.asu.edu\/stories\/asu-prism-shines-new-light-hobbit-874\" target=\"_blank\">ASU PRISM shines new light on &#8220;hobbit&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.R.R. Tolkien may have talked up their hairy feet, but it&#8217;s hobbits&#8217; wrists that interest anthropologists. In this article, I look at how an international team of researchers used Arizona State University&#8217;s cutting-edge imaging technology to crack the mystery of Homo floresiensis, a three-foot-tall, 18,000-year-old skeleton nicknamed the &#8220;hobbit.&#8221; ASU PRISM shines new light on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From the Shire to the Smithsonian: Placing hobbits on the human family tree<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,84,4,121,3],"tags":[123,122],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-genetics","category-history","category-imaging","category-science","tag-hominid","tag-hominin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}