Homo floresiensis
Scientists Find Hobbit-Sized People
Oct. 27, 2004 ?_Once upon a time, on an isolated island of Indonesia, there lived a colony of little people ? very little people.
Not only did anthropologists find the skeletal remains of a hobbit-sized, 30-year-old adult female, in this fairy-tale-like discovery they also uncovered in the same limestone cave the remains of a Komodo dragon, stone tools and a dwarf elephant.
Subsequent finds of other similarly sized, 3-foot-tall humans with brains the size of grapefruits in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores suggest these 18,000-year-old specimens weren't a quirk of an ancient hominin, but part of an entire species of miniature people whose existence overlapped with that of modern Homo sapiens. ...
Coolness!
Oct. 27, 2004 ?_Once upon a time, on an isolated island of Indonesia, there lived a colony of little people ? very little people.
Not only did anthropologists find the skeletal remains of a hobbit-sized, 30-year-old adult female, in this fairy-tale-like discovery they also uncovered in the same limestone cave the remains of a Komodo dragon, stone tools and a dwarf elephant.
Subsequent finds of other similarly sized, 3-foot-tall humans with brains the size of grapefruits in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores suggest these 18,000-year-old specimens weren't a quirk of an ancient hominin, but part of an entire species of miniature people whose existence overlapped with that of modern Homo sapiens. ...
Coolness!
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Neat.
And apparently there are stories about them among the local people so the archeologists think they may have been around much more recently. They're going back next year to look for more.
Well yeah, we've fucked a lot of things up, but hey, advanced machinery is cool too.
What's next, wood elves?
If they find pipes, tobacco and whole stashes of mathoms...