"Flores Man"
Researchers have so far unearthed remains from eight individuals who were just one metre tall, with grapefruit-sized skulls. These astonishing little people, nicknamed 'hobbits', made tools, hunted tiny elephants and lived at the same time as modern humans who were colonizing the area.
To read more about this, go to the link below:
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/flores/index.html
ME: If this story has some credibility in it, I think they are dwarfs. But...I never heard of one that is 1 metre tall, and even "tiny" elephants! This makes me think of that story called "Gulliver's Travels" about the tiny people in Lilliput.
Nancy
Researchers have so far unearthed remains from eight individuals who were just one metre tall, with grapefruit-sized skulls. These astonishing little people, nicknamed 'hobbits', made tools, hunted tiny elephants and lived at the same time as modern humans who were colonizing the area.
To read more about this, go to the link below:
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/flores/index.html
ME: If this story has some credibility in it, I think they are dwarfs. But...I never heard of one that is 1 metre tall, and even "tiny" elephants! This makes me think of that story called "Gulliver's Travels" about the tiny people in Lilliput.
Nancy
