Hobbit Skeptics Split On What A Second Skull Would Mean

Scientific American ^ | 2-6-2007 | JR Minkel

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Eberhard Zangger

...when Johann Karl Fuhlrott discovered the bones of a Neanderthal in a cave near Duesseldorf in 1856, the president of the German Society of Anthropology considered it a bow-legged, Mongolian Cossack with rickets, who had been lucky enough to survive multiple head injuries, but who, during a campaign by Russian forces against France in 1814, had been wounded, and (stark naked) had crawled into a cave, where he died.

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Dr. Bob
October 2000

John Coffin found these quotes: 'Rudolf Virchow, who was not only a great man of medicine but a highly respected archaeologist, examined the skull and dismissed it as unimportant. According to Virchow, the strange appearance of Neanderthal man was the result of an attack of rickets in his youth, which had twisted his legs and deformed his pelvis. He had triumphed over this handicap, Virchow declared, and had become a doughty fighter. The flat forehead and the massive brow ridges were caused by repeated skull fractures suffered during combat.' -- And -- 'An anthropologist named Pruner-Bey announced that the man of the cave had been "a powerfully organized Celt somewhat resembling the modern Irish with low mental organization." Professor Mayer of Bonn suggested that the skeleton was that of one of the Russian Cossacks who had invaded Germany in 1814. Another authority disagreed: "The skull is so deformed that the man must have been diseased. He had water on the brain, was feeble-minded, and no doubt lived in the woods like a beast."'

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[Cold Heart]

"Pea Brained Hobbit"
That has a nice ring to it

[blam]

""Pea Brained Hobbit" That has a nice ring to it"

They have a 'Broca's Area' that is four time larger than yours.

Small Brain Did Not Stop Hobbit Having Big Ideas

[coconutt2000]

I'm thinking that if they find a second skull that we propose the theory that the hobbits were two headed miniature humans.

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