Researchers found the new fossils at a place called Mata Menge, about 70 kilometers from the cave where researchers found the first hobbit remains.

研究人员在一个叫做马塔门格的地方发现了这些新化石，那里距离研究人员发现第一批“霍比特人”遗骸的洞穴约70公里。

So scientists are pretty sure that the hominins found at Mata Menge are the ancestors of Homo floresiensis.

因此，科学家们非常确定在马塔门格发现的古人类是弗洛勒斯人的祖先。

But the new Mata Menge fossils are helping us understand a little more about how ancient human life developed.

但是新的 Mata Menge 化石正在帮助我们更多地了解古代人类生命是如何发展的。

For one thing, the fossils were found in a layer of sandstone in the Mata Menge, a site in the So’a Basin in central Flores -- only 70 kilometers from the Liang Bua cave, where the Hobbit remains were first discovered.

首先， 这些化石是在弗洛勒斯中部 So'a 盆地的 Mata Menge 的一层砂岩中发现的，距离首次发现霍比特人遗骸的 Liang Bua 洞穴仅 70 公里。