Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid

While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across people talking about half-apelike, half-humanlike creatures that once lived in a cave on the slopes of a nearby volcano. Over the years he continued to record what locals had to say about these mystery hominoids while searching for ways to explain them as imaginary symbols of the wild or other cultural representations.



In Between Ape and Human, we follow Forth on the trail of this myster...