Hi, David.
I think it's the whole picture here that's necessary, not just the latest report which is fragmentary and doesn't give a wider view. A number of complete skeletons have been found in a cave, several years back. A general search on the internet should reveal this more complete story. They are adult, but tiny.
But again, what fascinates perhaps more than anything is that a number of people on Flores have come forward, saying that they've actually encountered, or seen from a distance, these very small humanoids even in recent years, and alive in numbers. One thought he witnessed their death-rites, if I recall correctly, which involved casting a body out to sea (I'd have to remind myself exactly what was reported TBH). So the 8,000-year-old skeletons could just be the dead from among a remote and living race...
That's quite an amazing prospect.
Edit to add: Putting "flores hobbits" into Google in advanced mode pulls up hundreds of links. From that, I don't see anything however about them being seen today. Putting "flores hobbits seen alive" in does bring up some links, but still not the stories I recall from a few years back, from contemporary sightings. I didn't look too deeply though.
There is this:
http://floresisland.net/2007/01/12/ebugogo-flores-hobbits-human/
V
Hi V,
I followed this story when it first hit the headlines. The discovery of the "hobbits" seemed to me to be strangely coincidental to the Lord of the Rings film on general release at that time. I guess it sounded better than the discovery of pygmy remains.
Its interesting, but how much is true, and how much is simply made up?
Cue for a visit:)?
Cheers,
David:)
Hi David.
Well, the link between the find, and the naming of the find, will just be that one of the films had recently been released (if one had). But the find is the find, and real enough.
Cue for a visit? That would be great, if only time and money allowed! It would hardly be done in a week or two. You know, quite apart from the people who actually say they've seen them, it seems unlikely to me that, if these beings were there as researchers believe even a million years ago, and then up to just 8,000 years ago, why would they suddenly be gone now?
Hmm, then again, the mammoth and the sabre tooth went somewhere around that time. And there's speculation that the mammoth, as well as the hobbit, were killed off by man. Maybe they'll remain another Bigfoot - which, as I've twice written about on these pages, mind you, a friend of mine actually encountered in the 1970s ...
V
Well, the link between the find, and the naming of the find, will just be that one of the films had recently been released (if one had). But the find is the find, and real enough.
Cue for a visit?
The film was called Return of the Hobbit or some-such - I forget now:D.
Re - the visit - go on, you know you want to!
David:)
The film was called Return of the Hobbit or some-such - I forget now:D.
Re - the visit - go on, you know you want to!
David:)
PM me then, and I'll give you my address to send the necessary finance to, to cover all costs while there's no other income! 😮 Thanks in advance!
More seriously, I just haven't taken the time, frankly, but must re-find the net links (probably even available by a simple search on HP) regarding people who've seen them, they say, in our generation.
Meanwhile, some things just get uncovered when fate dictates. Cryptozoology is the word. In just the last decade or so, UK Big Cats (pumas etc.) have progressed from being derided as myth to being an admitted feature of our nation. Meanwhile I actually know someone who encountered the Yeti, yet it remains scientifically unrecognised - for how long, I wonder? My point being that the hobbits may still exist but remain unrecognised as doing so for a fair old time yet. And what will modern man do to them when we find them?
V