Hello, Homo floresiensis: Studies prove "hobbits a new species"

cool.... but remember these stories and legends that have virtually covered all nations on this world have legend of little people that live under ground.... perhaps there is more truth to the old adage..."for every myth and legend there is somewhere in it ...truth and fact"


hell my native american ancestors talk of the little people that STILL live under the mountains in Glacier National Park near the Blackfeet nation...

There are many threads on this topic already, recent ones. Not to be "that guy."

But some of this information was included in those threads.

I think the notion of Neanderthal needs some updating here.

In the 19th Century they tried to show Neanderthal Man as ugl, brutish, inferior. A sort of racism iimplying Western European man was the pinnacle of human development.

Neanderthals were human, and not a separate species. Recent discoveries indicate we today may be hybrids of Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal Man.

in many ways Neanderthal was more advanced culturally and probably intellectually. Cro-magnon excelled in tools and weapons, and in the end that might account for his dominance.

Classic Neanderthals may have existed as a group as late as 25,000 B.C.
Some argue he my still be lurking around somewhere.


Mike