When you read the whole article you discover that there were multiple bones and skulls of a total of 15 individuals. They were in South Africa, nowhere near the “Hobbits”. THe weirdness is the combination of very primitave traits and rather modern traits. Below is a fascinating story of how the discoverer hired 6 small, thin, female anthropologists to crawl through the very small passage and extract all these bones.
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/09/homo-naledi-rising-star-cave-hominin/404362/
A world apart.