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In 2003, archaeologists in Indonesia discovered the skeleton of a previously unknown species of human - Homo floresiensis, or Flores man.

It was nicknamed the 'hobbit', after the characters created by JRR Tolkien, because they were just over a metre in height. It's thought they became extinct around 70,000 years ago.

Witness History's Rachel Naylor spoke to Peter Brown, the Australian paleoanthropologist who identified it.