Experts claim that hobbit human ancestors may be hiding in Indonesia
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the main point
- Homo floresiensis, which dates back to the late Pleistocene, was nicknamed “The Hobbit” because it was only 3 feet 6 inches tall.
- Studies over the years have concluded that they became extinct about 12,000 years ago. But now, an anthropologist from England is debating it.
- But now, a British anthropologist argues that no one really knows if Home floresiensis is truly extinct and may still live on the Indonesian island.
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Little early humans walked the island of Flores between 7,000,000 years ago and 60,000 years ago. Flores Island is now known to the world as Indonesia.
Homo floresiensis, which dates from the late Pleistocene, was nicknamed “The Hobbit” because it was only 3 feet 6 inches tall and had a brain one-third the size of a normal human.
Studies over the years have concluded that they became extinct about 12,000 years ago. But now, a British anthropologist argues that no one really knows if Home floresiensis is truly extinct and may still live on the Indonesian island.
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Gregory Forth, a retired anthropologist from the University of Alberta, argues in his new book that reports of “monkey humans” on Flores may be sightings of an ancient ancestor, somehow surviving in the modern world.
“We really don’t know when these species went extinct or, dare I say — I dare say — we don’t even know if they went extinct,” Forth told Live Science.
Forth has collected many reports and stories about humans living in the forest since he started his research in 1984.
He began the search after a team of scientists excavated a female skeleton of a human less than 4 feet tall from the Liang Bua Cave on Flores in 2003.
At the time scientists named the specimen the ‘Hobbit’, after the creation of the fictional JRR Tolkein. Since then, rumors have circulated that the hobbits never went extinct.
Forth said there have been sightings of a hobbit-like ancestor by more than 30 people.
“I conclude that the best way to explain what they told me is that irrational hominins have survived on Flores until recently or recently,” he said.
His book also details allegations about corpses that do not appear to be monkeys or humans. The remains recovered from the tomb appear to fit the description of Homo floresiensis.
However, experts around the world are not completely convinced by this claim.
“Realistically, the idea of large, unobservable primates on this island living in self-sufficient communities is close to zero,” John Hawkes, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, told Live Science.
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