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12 Hours ago Oct 11. '05
Scientists who have been excavating the Hobbit cave on Flores Island Indonesia for two years now.

The dwarf like tiny man, unearthed in the cave had the stature of a three year old modern child.
Was it a new unknown species, or a modern human with some form of aberrant dwarfism with a hormone deficiency? Or a person with microcenphaly, where the brain case does not grow to its full size?
Digging continued to try to solve this mystery.
Scientists have now discovered another nine individuals....all a dimunitive three feet high.
All their limbs are in proportion to their height.
They were found together with the bones of Stegadons, a minature Elephant, together with fire hearths and cooking implements.
Together proving that 'Hobbits will soon be classified as a new, previously unknown intelligent human species, that may have lived all over Indonesia 100,000 years ago.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=13156&cid=3&cname=Technology
and
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8128

Sure this wasn't some type of pigmy.

Hi Mike:

Avery interesting post. I read the link with great interest. I also noted a part that hints at some serious dogma taking control of truth.

"The scientists had bits and pieces of six other 'Hobbits' in hand shortly after the first find, but the bones were quickly and controversially "borrowed" by Teuku Jacob, a senior researcher (described by The Economist as a "doyen of Indonesian palaeoanthropology") at Gadjah Mada University in Jogjakarta and locked away for, it appears, largely political reasons coupled with antagonism toward the implications of a new species that did not conform to the evolutionary model he advocates, in which modern man descended in regional clusters from Erectus."

There is something familiar about that.
jjw