[blam]

"To date, there's no hard evidence they could sail or raft. "

Huh? It's my understanding that Flores was/is an island before, during and after the Ice Age.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Libertina]

Photos needed... :)

[Diddle E. Squat]

They believe the pint-size person - known officially as Homo floresiensis and unofficially as the "Hobbit" - was wiped out by a volcanic eruption

Another theory is that their hole was taken out by a thermobarbaric nuke...

[Yo-Yo]

How ironic that Hobbits may have been the first Australians, but it was a Kiwi that made the movies!

[Androcles]

Exactly - to be in Australia proper they would have needed some means of getting to or from there...

Lovely theory of his, but I just can't see what he's basing it on apart from wishful thinking as the other fellow said...

[U S Army EOD]

But there were some survivors, they made it to New Zealand. I have three movies that can prove this.

[Continental Soldier]

Tiny, hobbit like humans? Extinct? No, no, they live and whine in France, Germany and Spain. Oh, yeah!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Calling them "hobbits" sure does give one a case of the warm fuzzies. When I was growing up, we always called them by the politically incorrect name, pygmies.

[El Gato]

To date, there's no hard evidence they could sail or raft.

They got to the island somehow. That's evidence, but I suppose it would be called "soft", even though it seems fairly decisive to me.

[SteveMcKing]

Professor Jacob, who temporarily snatched the Hobbit remains, claimed the creature was a deformed human and wished to work at the cave to prove his point.

Or an extraterrestrial.

[SunkenCiv]

It's my understanding that Flores was/is an island before, during and after the Ice Age.

That's also my understanding. It's been an island for more than 800,000 years, the date of some stone tools left by Erectus, or hey, who knows, maybe the Halflings.

Thanks Blam.

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[Dustbunny]

Interesting but..........

[Graymatter]

Current issue of Discover reports that Penn. State U. researchers have concluded "Homo floresiensis is not a valid new human species." Article says that some consider the bones to be those of a "pygmy...who had microcephaly."
What are the odds of anyone finding, among the very few human fossils ever found, a pinhead pygmy? However, it seems the fellow who found this specimen won't be permitted by the Indonesian govt to return to find another one.