Friday, January 26, 2007
Taken from BBC NEWS, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6294101.stm
Familiar with the Hobbits from Lord of the Rings?
An Australian-Indonesian research team had found their
skeletal remains in a limestone cave deep in the Flores jungle in 2003.
The jungle is in Indonesia but access to it has been blocked.
Now, the remains are known to be structures of humanlike creatures,
around 1m in height with its brains the size that of a chimp.
They lived around eighteen thousand years ago, already inhabiting
South-East Asian.
This shows that we might have a history longer than we have expected.
Interestingly, hobbits do exist. ( Can't imagine my ancestor to be one...)
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