Hobbit And Goliath
Another article recalling the discovery of Homo Floresiensis (Flores island), and a brief mention of Lee Berger’s discovery in South Africa of a race of giants dating back to over a quarter of a million years . Although not specified in the article, I assume these remains belonged to a branch of the Homo erectus family.
Featured is an interview with Richard Roberts who was on the Flores expedition. The remains of the 3 ft tall humans have caused anthropolgists to re-think brain size as being related to what we term intelligence. Because they are so small, the hobbit people might not be expected to be very advanced, yet so far all the evidence points to them as being as intelligent as modern humans of the same period.
Amongst the artifacts recovered with the remains of seven individuals indicated that these people hunted pygmy Stegodon, weighing up to half a ton, no easy prey for a mini human the size of a modern day 3-year old child.
Other food items on their menu included giant rats and Komodo dragons, themselves hardly tame and docile members of the animal population, leading one to the view that the Flores humans were not easily intimidated. They likely possessed hunting skills and cooperative behaviour involving the use of language, or maybe just good telepathy, on a par with other modern and archaic humans.
The find also tells us that it is only in the last 10,000 to 18,000 years that modern humans have been the sole hominid species alive on the planet; at all other times in prehistory there have been at least two, and sometimes three or more, hominid species walking the Earth.
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