Liang Bua

Liang Bua is a limestone cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, slightly north of the town of Ruteng in Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. The cave demonstrated archaeological and paleontological potential in the 1950s and 1960s as described by the Dutch missionary and archaeologist Theodor L. Verhoeven.

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  Liang Bua ⓘ
  Indonesian cave

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20160328125243 - This is me at the Liang Bua hobbit cave - yes, I was there (25999478972)

20160328124557 - Interesting stalagmite in the Liang Bua hobbit cave (26066061666)

20160328122708 - The inside of the Liang Bua hobbit cave (homo floresiensis) (26066080056)

20160328132428 - The buses in Flores seem to be mostly old tip trucks with a roof. This returning from the Liang Bua hobbit cave (26025657131)

20160328112821 - Parasoled women as I head towards the Liang Bua hobbit cave (25819131920)

20160328113859 - Crazy-looking house near the Liang Bua hobbit cave (26025627541)

20160328123706 - Inside the very top, back section of the Liang Bua hobbit cave. No-one much bigger than me could he got in here (25819142510)

20160328114541 - Typical decrepit road section heading towards the Liang Bua hobbit cave (26066059426)

• Conclusions: implications of the Liang Bua excavations for hominin evolution and biogeography - scientific article, Q1860, 2009
• New wrist bones of Homo floresiensis from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia). - scientific article, Q1860, 2013
• Revised stratigraphy and chronology for Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in Indonesia - scientific article (publication date: 30 March 2016), Q1860
• Late Pleistocene-Holocene non-passerine avifauna of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) - scholarly article by Hanneke J. M. Meijer et al published July 2013 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Q1860
• Late Pleistocene songbirds of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia); the first fossil passerine fauna described from Wallacea - scientific article, 2017
• Initial micromorphological results from Liang Bua, Flores (Indonesia): Site formation processes and hominin activities at the type locality of Homo floresiensis - scholarly article by Mike W. Morley et al published January 2017 in Journal of Archaeological Science, Q1860
• LB1 from Liang Bua, Flores: craniofacial asymmetry confirmed, plagiocephaly diagnosis dubious - scientific article published in November 2010, Q1860
• Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: population affinities and pathological abnormalities - scientific article, Q1860, 2006
• Body size and its consequences: allometry and the lower limb length of Liang Bua 1 (Homo floresiensis). - scientific article, Q1860, 2009
• Reconstructing the geomorphic history of Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia: a stratigraphic interpretation of the occupational environment - scientific article, Q1860, 2009
• Pleistocene survivors and Holocene extinctions: The giant rats from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) - scientific article published in December 2012
• More on the Liang Bua finds and modern human cretins - scientific article published on 27 October 2012, Q1860
• The evolving landscape and climate of western Flores: an environmental context for the archaeological site of Liang Bua. - scientific article, Q1860, 2009
• Geochronology of cave deposits at Liang Bua and of adjacent river terraces in the Wae Racang valley, western Flores, Indonesia: a synthesis of age estimates for the type locality of Homo floresiensis. - scientific article, Q1860, 2009
• Preliminary U-series and Thermoluminescence dating of excavated deposits in Liang Bua sub-chamber, Flores, Indonesia - scholarly article by Emma J. St Pierre et al published January 2013 in Journal of Archaeological Science, Q1860
• Bat cave and Hobbit hole, microbats of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) - scholarly article by Esther Marlous Ouwendijk et al published 21 March 2014 in Alcheringa, Q1860
• The youngest stegodon remains in Southeast Asia from the Late Pleistocene archaeological site Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia - article, 2008
• Liang Bua Homo floresiensis mandibles and mandibular teeth: a contribution to the comparative morphology of a new hominin species - scientific article, Q1860, 2009
• The Liang Bua faunal remains: a 95k.yr. sequence from Flores, East Indonesia. - scientific article, Q1860, 2008
• Temporal shifts in the distribution of murine rodent body size classes at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) reveal new insights into the paleoecology of Homo floresiensis and associated fauna - scientific article published in May 2019, Q1860
• Continuities in stone flaking technology at Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia. - scientific article, Q1860, 2009
• Preface: research at Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia - scientific article, Q1860, 2009
• The spatio-temporal distribution of archaeological and faunal finds at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) in light of the revised chronology for Homo floresiensis - scholarly article by Thomas Sutikna published in November 2018, Q1860
• Geoarchaeological finds below Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia): A split-level cave system for Homo floresiensis ? - scholarly article by Michael K. Gagan published in December 2015
• Establishing the time of initial human occupation of Liang Bua, western Flores, Indonesia - scholarly article by K.E. Westaway et al published January 2007 in Quaternary Geochronology
• A new species of giant marabou stork (Aves: Ciconiiformes) from the Pleistocene of Liang Bua, Flores (Indonesia) - article, 2010, online
• Combined organic biomarker and use-wear analyses of stone artefacts from Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia - scientific article published on 26 November 2019, Q1860

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
site	cave		Liang Bua	archaeological site, cave	Wikidata
commons	image		20160328125243 - This is me at the Liang Bua hobbit cave - yes, I was there (25999478972)		Commons
commons	image		20160328124557 - Interesting stalagmite in the Liang Bua hobbit cave (26066061666)		Commons
commons	image		20160328122708 - The inside of the Liang Bua hobbit cave (homo floresiensis) (26066080056)		Commons
commons	image		20160328132428 - The buses in Flores seem to be mostly old tip trucks with a roof. This returning from the Liang Bua hobbit cave (26025657131)		Commons
commons	image		20160328112821 - Parasoled women as I head towards the Liang Bua hobbit cave (25819131920)		Commons
commons	image		20160328113859 - Crazy-looking house near the Liang Bua hobbit cave (26025627541)		Commons
commons	image		20160328123706 - Inside the very top, back section of the Liang Bua hobbit cave. No-one much bigger than me could he got in here (25819142510)		Commons
commons	image		20160328114541 - Typical decrepit road section heading towards the Liang Bua hobbit cave (26066059426)		Commons