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Originally posted by chiron613
I don't think any of us would appreciate someone digging up our deceased ancestors in the name of "science", no matter how interesting those ancestors might be. Why should the Maori be any different? It's just a desecration to dig up their ancestors.
Originally posted by chiron613
I'm not seeing any serious conspiracy here, other than a belated sensitivity to the customs and sensibilities of the Maori. If they revere their dead, who are we to dig them up?
Originally posted by chiron613
As for the unusual sizes of these alleged bones - easy to say, when there's nothing to prove it wrong. You can say they had three heads and tentacles, or anything else you want. But, is it true? Or is it just an embellishment to a story of not allowing people to dig up other people's ancestors?
Hobbits of Indonesia were different human species
Three old bones from a left wrist offer a new twist in the long running debate about the so called hobbits of Indonesia, suggesting they were indeed a small and different kind of human species, rather than modern humans with a growth disorder.
Three years ago, Prof Mike Morwood, of the University of New England, in Armidale, Australia, and colleagues made headlines worldwide when they announced the discovery of 18,000-year-old remains of Homo floresiensis in the Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of Flores.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by chiron613
I don't think any of us would appreciate someone digging up our deceased ancestors in the name of "science", no matter how interesting those ancestors might be. Why should the Maori be any different? It's just a desecration to dig up their ancestors.
Perhaps you didn't read the information but THESE ARE NOT MAORI, even the Maori have stated they are not part of their people, and that the governments can do whatever they want with them. That is the problem.
These people are like the Duatha De Dannan of Eiree (now known as Ireland).
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Actually the giants in Celtic Myth were the Fomor. The came after of the Tuatha de Dannan.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Actually the giants in Celtic Myth were the Fomor. The came after of the Tuatha de Dannan.
Where did I say that the Tuatha de Danann were giants?
I said they were suposed to be magical, not that they were giants.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
These people are like the Duatha De Danann of Eire (now known as Ireland). As in another species of humanoids not derived from humans.
We KNOW FOR A FACT these races existed.
There is even the hobbit race that was discovered a couple years back and was made public. That was the first time one of these races was publicly acknowledged to have existed.
A lot of people don't understand that the races depicted by Tolkien were gathered by him from ancient accounts from different human cultures depicting similar races as those in tolkien books.
The stories of fantasy that Tolkien created came from real stories of similar ancient races, and people.
The Elves of Tolkien were the Tuatha De Danann