Indonesia's Lost World: Shaking Up The Family Tree (More - New Human Species)

Archaeology ^ | 10-28-2004 | Davisd Keys

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These people would have had to use a boat to get to this island...long before humans were believed to have this capability.

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GGG Ping.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[eagle11]

Who would the "little people" endorse?

[Migraine]

Who would the "little people" endorse?

Remember Bilk Linton's cabinet?

[Fatalis]

What's more, folklore evidence, which has been gathered by the researchers on the same island, provides the remarkable suggestion that Homo floresiensis may have survived until at least 150 years ago. And zoological evidence from another Indonesian island, Sumatra, suggests that a potentially similar intelligent bipedal species may still be alive and well and living in a remote jungle area.

FYI

[Domangart]

Now days you can find them holding a can of beer and picking a fight with anyone taller.

[valkyrieanne]

These hominids would have had to use a boat to get to this island...long before humans were believed to have this capability.

Not necessarily, although making a crude raft out of logs isn't probably beyond hominids capable of making spear points and hunting in coordinated groups.

But even without boats, consider that the "Flores Men" were supposed to have come to the island about 85,000 years ago. At that time, the northern hemisphere (and presumably the southernmost regions of the southern hemisphere) were in the midst of an Ice Age. This means the ocean levels were lower than today, and it may be that the Indonesian archipelago was actually in many places a contiguous land mass, or at least consisting of islands much closer together (perhaps separated by swamps or mangrove forests rather than ocean.)

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[PatrickHenry]

Thanks for the ping, but we've had a few threads on this already:
Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton.
Tiny new species of human unearthed - most important palaeoanthropological find for 50 years.
Hobbit remains found in Australia.

[Fatalis]

Seen them, but I didn't recall if they mentioned a possible remnant population of H. floresiensis

[PatrickHenry]

No problem. It's a big enough topic for more than one thread. Now, everyone in this thread will have access to the earlier ones.

[Fatalis]

I started a couple of keyworks and linked the four threads so far. Homofloresiensis and floresiensis.

[Ichneumon]

"We now have to entertain the possibility that somewhere within the islands of southeast Asia, early types of human being--long thought to have been extinct--may indeed still survive,"

Very cool.

[PatrickHenry]

Anything of interest to the evolution debates is marked with the keyword CREVOLIST. I had already tagged the three earlier ones, and this one is also tagged with that word.

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"This means the ocean levels were lower than today, and it may be that the Indonesian archipelago was actually in many places a contiguous land mass, or at least consisting of islands much closer together (perhaps separated by swamps or mangrove forests rather than ocean.)"

An area the size of present day India, around Indonesia went under water at the end of the Ice Age...It is named Sundaland.

An excellent book on the subject is: Eden In The East: Drowned Continent Of Southeast Asia, by Dr Steven Oppenheimer

Australian DNA Challenges Human Origin Theories

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Island Of The Little People