Just for interest; some news on our newly-discovered small country cousins
from Indonesia ;-)

(Excerpt):

Morwood said the "Flores man" evolved in isolation, becoming so small
because of environmental conditions such as food shortages and a lack of
predators.

Scientists have pieced together an image of a hairless, dark-skinned dwarf
species with a head the size of a grapefruit, sunken eyes, a flat nose and
large teeth and mouth projecting forward with virtually no chin.

What surprised scientists was that despite the shrinking of the
brain "Flores man" still performed complex tasks like making miniature
stone tools, hunting miniature Stegodon elephants and giant Komodo dragons
and using fire to cook.

"They were making sophisticated stone tools, some of which appear to be
directly associated with the hunting of big game like Stegodon, like
Komodo dragon…and for butchering these large animals," said Morwood.

"So despite very, very small brains, this hominid population was doing
sophisticated things," he said.

The remains discovered have been dated as old as 95,000 years and as young
as 13,000 years ago, meaning the Flores man's time overlaps modern humans
by about 40,000 years, but it is not clear whether there was any
interaction between the two on Flores.

Scientists suspect "Flores man" became extinct after a massive volcanic
eruption on the island around 12,000 years ago, but local folk tales
suggest the hominids may have still been living on Flores up until the
Dutch arrived in the 1500s.

The expedition discovered "Flores man" while looking for records of modern
human migration to Asia. The hominid find was reported in the latest
edition of science journal Nature.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=204503

Cheers,

Persephone