After Three Years, Excavations on the Island of Flores are Again Being Undertaken. (August 9, 2007)

    Nature reports a team from Indonesia and Australia has returned to the island of Flores that yielded the first specimen of Homo floresiensis.

The new excavations were begun a month ago at Liang Bua cave. The hope is that they will unearth more fossils of H. floresiensis (the hobbits), which lived until about 18,000 years ago.

To date the archaeologists have excavated to a depth of about six reaching layers rich in artefacts and animal bones which include bones of pygmy elephants, but so far no hominin bones have been found.