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The Little People
Apr 08, 2005, 12:23
A little off-topic I'm afraid but there's a fascinating article in the April edition of National Geographic about the 'Little People' (now named Homo floresiensis) who were recently found (their remains that is) in a cave on the island Flores in Indonesia.

It's estimated that an adult member of the Little People weighed about 55 pounds, stood only three feet tall and had a brain just one third the size of a modern human's (though that doesn't seem to have prevented them from manufacturing some very sophisticated stone tools).

It's thought the Little People existed alongside modern humans as recently as 13,000 years ago and that, "...local folktales (talk) about half-size, hairy people with flat foreheads - stories the islanders tell even today. It's breathtaking to think that modern humans may still have a folk memory of sharing the planet with another species of humans, like us but unfathomably different."

More here - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1027_041027_homo_floresiensis.html
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