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Figure 11. Mike Morwood's musings on a beach in 1995 began a chain of
events that, among other things, led to the discovery of Hobbit in 2003.
Photographed by Djuna Ivereigh/ARKENAS.
of international experts on stone tools, plant and animal remains, the
hominin fossil record, dating techniques, geological processes, evo-
lutionary processes on islands, and anything else to do with past and
present environments. Research would be carried out on both Java and
Flores. Together with geographer Bert Roberts, of the University of
Wollongong, Morwood submitted a grant proposal to the Australian
Research Council (ARC): “Astride the Wallace Line: 1.5 Million Years
of Human Evolution, Dispersal, Culture and Environmental Change
in Indonesia.” In October 2002, they learned that the ARC was funding
the project for four years. Only a year later, LB1 was discovered, and the
world learned about her one year after that.
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Similar to Dart in his recovery of Taung, Morwood was not the one
to make the actual discovery of LB1, which took place while he was
worker, Benyamin Tarus, unearthed a small portion of a skull, at which
