A hypothesis that I find attractive has chimps, humans and gorillas with a bipedal common ancestor, and that the knuckle walking characteristic of the African great apes being a derived adaptation from a bipedal precursor.
Probably rafted. Flores is across the Wallace line-meaning deep water even during the Ice Age, but as he explains later in the video, they could have been swept by currents from islands north of Flores. Island dwarfism explains the small size of both the humans and elephants-it’s an adaptation to living on an island.
I've seen a documentary made in the 70s that was made on that same island where the fimed a man from that island ,,who was only 3foot tall ,,strang none of these science people didn't even ask the islanders about the people that lived in the caves
That's Neanderthals. Then there's two kinds of hobbits, Denisovans seem to be very thick as well but probably taller.. GIANTS! 😅There was also an as yet unknown archaic species in Africa, Elves! Tolkien was channeling some shit whether he knew it or not lol.
@@Ghost2743neanderthals are not that small - just on the short side of average, actually. Denisovans, giants?? We have clear DNA evidence of them, so so few skeletal remains we have no idea how tall they were.
The mythology among some Indonesian tribes include the mention of the "Ebu Gogo" which were human-like little people. Since there's evidence of modern humans arriving to Australia 50,000 years ago, modern humans definitely encountered the Flores hominins in their travels
I recommend Gregory Forth's book "Between Ape and Man" Its an anthropological research into personal accounts he obtained 40 YEARS ago on the island of Flores of apelike/human like folks encounted by modern natives.
Great lecture but really annoying to watch, please just leave the screen in shot and stop zooming in and out!
Awesome video!
A hypothesis that I find attractive has chimps, humans and gorillas with a bipedal common ancestor, and that the knuckle walking characteristic of the African great apes being a derived adaptation from a bipedal precursor.
Archaeologically that doesn't work.
Humans were apparently sailing away quite early, but how did the mini elephants get to Flores?
walk.
Hobbit probably did not sail. Had a v small brain even for its size. Probably also walked. Homo erectus at time had a brain bigger than ours.
Probably rafted. Flores is across the Wallace line-meaning deep water even during the Ice Age, but as he explains later in the video, they could have been swept by currents from islands north of Flores. Island dwarfism explains the small size of both the humans and elephants-it’s an adaptation to living on an island.
I've seen a documentary made in the 70s that was made on that same island where the fimed a man from that island ,,who was only 3foot tall ,,strang none of these science people didn't even ask the islanders about the people that lived in the caves
99% hunter 1% gather
40 years ago already known in the Mediterranean.
So we probably saw dwarves in ancient times
That's Neanderthals. Then there's two kinds of hobbits, Denisovans seem to be very thick as well but probably taller.. GIANTS! 😅There was also an as yet unknown archaic species in Africa, Elves! Tolkien was channeling some shit whether he knew it or not lol.
@@Ghost2743neanderthals are not that small - just on the short side of average, actually. Denisovans, giants?? We have clear DNA evidence of them, so so few skeletal remains we have no idea how tall they were.
The mythology among some Indonesian tribes include the mention of the "Ebu Gogo" which were human-like little people. Since there's evidence of modern humans arriving to Australia 50,000 years ago, modern humans definitely encountered the Flores hominins in their travels
They left no tangible remains.
Actually, they left a ton of remains, given the tropical climate-remains of 15 individuals and tens of thousands of stone tools and butchered animals.
Nuh uh, they left no edible remains.... unless u one of them chinese that swaloww them exotic bone powder for virality or some shit
What about the hobbit sized humans of Hawaii, the Menehune or the the Irish leprecons ?
How about the tiny people that live under the kitchen sink?
I recommend Gregory Forth's book "Between Ape and Man" Its an anthropological research into personal accounts he obtained 40 YEARS ago on the island of Flores of apelike/human like folks encounted by modern natives.
There is no archaeological evidence of Menehune or Leprechauns, sorry