Proof: Tolkien's world is real

***Sister Golden Hair*** · 10-27-2004, 02:30 PM

Actually, I just thought this was an interesting article.

"Hobbit" Discovered: Tiny Human Ancestor Found in Asia

Hillary Mayell
for National Geographic News
October 27, 2004

Scientists have found fossil skeletons of a hobbit-like species of human that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The tiny humans, who had skulls about the size of grapefruits, lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia as recently as 13,000 years ago.
Australian and Indonesian researchers discovered bones of the miniature humans in a cave on Flores, an island midway between Asia and Australia.

Scientists have determined that the first skeleton they found belongs to a species of human completely new to science. Named Homo floresiensis, after the island on which it was found, the tiny human has also been dubbed by dig workers as the "hobbit," after the tiny creatures from the Lord of the Rings books.

The original skeleton, a female, stood at just 1 meter (3.3 feet) tall, weighed about 25 kilograms (55 pounds), and was around 30 years old at the time of her death.

Read the full story

>>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...nsis.html#main

**Nurvingiel** · 10-27-2004, 02:35 PM

Shouldn't that be Homo hobbitus? Homo shireus? Homo elevensiens? ...

Now we just have to find the ruins of Barad-dur... and some elf and dwarf skeletons and we're all set!

Seriously though, that's a very cool article.

BeardofPants · 10-27-2004, 03:49 PM

That is way cool, though of course it isn't the first example of tiny hominids. One only has to look further back in the fossil record to find tiny hominids, both the australopithecines, and the genus homo.

inked · 10-27-2004, 04:29 PM

BoP,

yes, well, aren't you really desirous of their pants status?

***Tessar*** · 10-27-2004, 11:22 PM

Awwwwww! So tiny, yet do deadly

.

Or something like that. Yea... yea... Frodo Lives and all that. Lived, rather.

Count Comfect · 10-27-2004, 11:27 PM

Frodo Evolved!

That's way smaller than any other species. Even our australopithecine ancestors are larger. My anthropology teacher was emailed us all in a fluster.

Gwaimir Windgem · 05-08-2010, 09:51 PM

Quote:

Neandertals are not totally extinct; they live on in some of us.

Well, I could have told you that.

hectorberlioz · 05-08-2010, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

Well, I could have told you that.

Yeah, I mean just look at Gwai----erm, some of the mean people who do mean stuff in the world. They're neanderthals. *cough*

inked · 05-08-2010, 10:40 PM

Some small genomic parts of them live on in us, rather.

is Gwai really one of those Geico Commercial Neandertals? Like, WOW!

Should that be Gwaico now?

Hektor du ist nicht PRESIDANT FUR LIF yet. Du shud not being speci-est! Du mit ofend de Geico Gwaico!

10-27-2004, 02:30 PM	#1
*Sister Golden Hair* Queen of Nargothrond Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Akron, Ohio - USA Posts: 7,121	Proof: Tolkien's world is real Actually, I just thought this was an interesting article. "Hobbit" Discovered: Tiny Human Ancestor Found in Asia Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News October 27, 2004 Scientists have found fossil skeletons of a hobbit-like species of human that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The tiny humans, who had skulls about the size of grapefruits, lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia as recently as 13,000 years ago. Australian and Indonesian researchers discovered bones of the miniature humans in a cave on Flores, an island midway between Asia and Australia. Scientists have determined that the first skeleton they found belongs to a species of human completely new to science. Named Homo floresiensis, after the island on which it was found, the tiny human has also been dubbed by dig workers as the "hobbit," after the tiny creatures from the Lord of the Rings books. The original skeleton, a female, stood at just 1 meter (3.3 feet) tall, weighed about 25 kilograms (55 pounds), and was around 30 years old at the time of her death. Read the full story >>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...nsis.html#main __________________ "Whither go you?" she said. "North away." he said: "to the swords, and the siege, and the walls of defence - that yet for a while in Beleriand rivers may run clean, leaves spring, and birds build their nests, ere Night comes." AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

10-27-2004, 03:49 PM	#3
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	That is way cool, though of course it isn't the first example of tiny hominids. One only has to look further back in the fossil record to find tiny hominids, both the australopithecines, and the genus homo. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

10-27-2004, 04:29 PM	#4
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	BoP, yes, well, aren't you really desirous of their pants status? __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

10-27-2004, 11:27 PM	#6
Count Comfect Word Santa Claus Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 2,922	Frodo Evolved! That's way smaller than any other species. Even our australopithecine ancestors are larger. My anthropology teacher was emailed us all in a fluster. __________________ Sufficient to have stood, yet free to fall.

05-08-2010, 10:40 PM	#9
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Some small genomic parts of them live on in us, rather. is Gwai really one of those Geico Commercial Neandertals? Like, WOW! Should that be Gwaico now? Hektor du ist nicht PRESIDANT FUR LIF yet. Du shud not being speci-est! Du mit ofend de Geico Gwaico! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

10-27-2004, 11:22 PM	#5
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Awwwwww! So tiny, yet do deadly . Or something like that. Yea... yea... Frodo Lives and all that. Lived, rather.

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