Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Who were the hobbits?


Who were the hobbits?
In a cave called Lingua Bua paleontologists discovered something miraculous. They found a new type of early ancestor, only as tall as a 4 year old this hominid lived in the wild island of Flores in Indonesia. Our tiny ancestors were discovered by a Peter Brown and Michael Moorwood from Australia they named it the Homo Floresiensis after the island it was found in. Even though the appearance of the Flores people are primitive, they only 12,000 years ago, to many scientists and archaeologists this is a strange fact. Other scientists believe that the discovery of the Flores people could change the way we look at the evolution of humans. However, this subject is very debatable; many scientists think that Homo Floresiensis are not a new type of species, just a smaller version of the Homo erectus.  On the other hand, Island dwarfing could be the reason why these people are so small. As the research went on, archaeologists found different tools around where the hobbits were unearthed. This states that having a small brain and figure does not effect on the way they could make things, such as tools. Considering the fact that these hobbits could make tools, survive on an island, and live a long time, this suggests that having a small brain doesn’t mean that they couldn’t do all of these things.  This is a big clue to our puzzle piece to history and finding out how humans evolved.

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