Indonesia’s Liang Bua important for studying evolution

Important discovery: Mark W. Moore, a senior lecturer from the University of New England, observing a skull replica of a ‘Homo floresiensis’. — The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network

Jakarta: Remarkable events happen at mundane moments.

It was getting late on Sept 2, 2003, time for team co-director archaeologist Thomas Sutikna, 37, to call it a day at the Liang Bua (Cool Cave) dig in Central Flores, East Nusa Tenggara.