[blam]

These people would have had to use a boat to get to this island...long before humans were believed to have this capability.

[isthisnickcool]

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[eagle11]

Who would the "little people" endorse?

[Fatalis]

What's more, folklore evidence, which has been gathered by the researchers on the same island, provides the remarkable suggestion that Homo floresiensis may have survived until at least 150 years ago. And zoological evidence from another Indonesian island, Sumatra, suggests that a potentially similar intelligent bipedal species may still be alive and well and living in a remote jungle area.

FYI

[valkyrieanne]

These hominids would have had to use a boat to get to this island...long before humans were believed to have this capability.

Not necessarily, although making a crude raft out of logs isn't probably beyond hominids capable of making spear points and hunting in coordinated groups.

But even without boats, consider that the "Flores Men" were supposed to have come to the island about 85,000 years ago. At that time, the northern hemisphere (and presumably the southernmost regions of the southern hemisphere) were in the midst of an Ice Age. This means the ocean levels were lower than today, and it may be that the Indonesian archipelago was actually in many places a contiguous land mass, or at least consisting of islands much closer together (perhaps separated by swamps or mangrove forests rather than ocean.)

[avoCAdos]

[Ichneumon]

"We now have to entertain the possibility that somewhere within the islands of southeast Asia, early types of human being--long thought to have been extinct--may indeed still survive,"

Very cool.

[VadeRetro]

Kudos! Your "orang pendek" suspicions shared by "some zoologists."

[VadeRetro]

Another Homo floresiensis article with some new details. You had mentioned an interest.

[Bob J]

Could they have crossed over from the Asian mainland during an ice age?

[VadeRetro]

The local tradition for Homo floresiensis is potentially significant. Villagers in Flores say that up until around 150 years ago, there were small, three-foot-tall hairy "people" who used to steal food from them. Known as the ebu gogos (literally "the grandmothers who eat anything"), they were tolerated by islanders until they stole a baby and ate it. Whether the ebu gogo is pure myth or an accurate recollection of Homo floresiensis is at present unprovable.

There's yet another possibility, comparable to the idea that the dragon legends around the world originated from the dinosaur fossils which people must have been unearthing throughout history. Maybe modern scientists aren't the first to unearth these types of remains on Flores and elsewhere. People find something like this and stories get started.

[SunkenCiv]

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