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Rune R
Rune Sep 23, 2005 23:29:00
Replying to FourWinds

Yes, and the scientists' opposing views are very interesting on both sides.

However, I'd have liked to know about the stone tools that were found with the Hobbits. No-one said if the tools were normal sized or not.

I'd have expected the tools to be proportionately smaller if they were being used by a race of little people.

Rune

I Ishmael
Ishmael Sep 23, 2005 23:32:03
Replying to Rune

Now That is a damn good point and something I had not thought about.
Makes sense to me, smaller hands make smaller tools.

P PeterH
PeterH Sep 24, 2005 00:36:44
Replying to Rune

Agreed, but were these "hobbits" any smaller than modern Congolese pygmies? Small stature of isolated modern humans is not at all unknown - there must be specific skeletal differences to make them a different species - stature alone cannot be any kind of proof.