Homo Floresiensis was part of the Asian dispersals of the descendants of Homo ergaster and Homo erectus. Truely an amazing find and incredible that a branch of H.erectus survived up until almost the beginning of recorded history.
The remains were found with Florida ballots from 2000...
I predict this is the new "New Zealander builds Hobbit Hole" thread. LOL
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Homo Floresiensis was part of the Asian dispersals of the descendants of Homo ergaster and Homo erectus. Truely an amazing find and incredible that a branch of H.erectus survived up until almost the beginning of recorded history.
Precursor of modern Democrats?
This is fascinating.
Shades of Ringworld.
(Isn't that supposed to be happening somewhere, like in New Zealand, re-using some of the LOTR movie sets?)
Scientist Rejects Flores Hobbit Claim
A senior Indonesian scientist has rejected claims by Australian scientists that small fossilized skeletons found on Flores island, East Nusa Tenggara province, were of an entirely new human species. Senior paleanthropologist Professor Teuku Jacob said Friday the so-called “Homo floresiensis” – dubbed the Flores Hobbit by Australian scientists after the dwarf-like characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels – was actually a smaller sub-species of modern day Homo sapiens. "The fossils that were found in Flores included a Homo sapiens that lived around 1,300 to 1,800 years ago… The Homo floresiensis is actually a Homo sapiens, the same as us, except its size was smaller,” Jacob was quoted as saying by detikcom online news portal. The professor from Yogyakarta’s Gadjah Mada University said skeletons were part of the Australo-Melanesid race, which had lived across most of the Indonesian archipelago.
Hobbits are poping out all over......http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=any;o=score;s=%27Hobbit%27%20Brain%20Supports%20Species%20Theory%20
Scientists working with powerful imaging computers say the spectacular "Hobbit" fossil recently discovered in Indonesia had distinctive brain features that could justify its classification as a separate — and tiny — human ancestor.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&u=/ap/20050303/ap_on_sc/hobbit_brain_2&printer=1
Science marches on in the Islamic world.Scientists Outraged over Damage to 'Hobbit' RemainsThe damage to the bones of this diminutive being -- named Homo floresiensis and nicknamed hobbit by scientists -- is so extensive that it will limit scholarly research on the species, say members of the Indonesian Center for Archaeology-based discovery team... In November, the research took a bizarre turn into the politics of paleontology. Teuku Jacob of Gadjah Mada University, an Indonesian scientist unaffiliated with the discovery team, took the partly fossilized bones to his lab in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 275 miles away from their repository in Jakarta... The team charges the remains were severely damaged by rubber molds made at Jacob's lab... Much of the detail at the base of the skull was pulled off... The left outer eye socket and two teeth were broken off and glued back. Bits of molded rubber still adhere to some sections... Long, deep cuts mark the lower edge of the hobbit's jaw on both sides, left by a blade used to cut away molded rubber... The chin of a second hobbit jaw was snapped off, losing bone. It was glued back together misaligned and at an incorrect angle... The pelvis was smashed, perhaps in transit, destroying details that reveal body shape, gait and evolutionary history... Jacob says. "Both mandibles were intact until the last minute in our lab, as proven by photographs taken on the last days." He did not respond to a request for the photos... Paleontologist Maciej Henneberg of Australia's University of Adelaide defends Jacob: "I never had any doubts that Professor Jacob and his colleagues did not damage any bones. They are excellent professionals with long experience in handling precious human remains." ...Damage to the pelvis during travel raises "the question of why an evidently very fragile specimen apparently was uncaringly transported from its permanent repository and halfway across Java in the first place," says paleontologist Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History... In news reports, Jacob dismissed the team's designation of Homo floresiensis as a new species... said the fossils belong to a human pygmy with a brain disorder... Jacob allowed human-origins researcher Jean-Jacques Hublin of Germany's Max Plank Institute to take a small section of hobbit fossil to Germany for genetic analysis. "This is completely unethical," Roberts says. "This is freeloading on our discovery." ...In 1999, anthropologist representatives of 20 countries, including Indonesia and Germany, signed a resolution barring transfer of original hominid fossils from their country of origin without compelling scientific reasons.
USA Today
March 22, 2005
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