Re: Causes of floresiensis' Dwarfism

From: Rich Travsky (traRvEsky_at_hotmMOVEail.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:08:54 -0600

Philip Deitiker wrote:
>
> In sci.anthropology.paleo, Rich Travsky created a
> message ID news:41800967.FA27FCC@hotmMOVEail.com:
>
> > Some interesting bits:
> >
> > http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?
> file=/nature/journal/v431/n7012/full/nature02999
> _r.html&filetype=&dynoptions=
> > [...]
>
> So the question is, if the original inhabitants of erectoids
> are 1.6 mya, and this thing is '13 kya' why would they be
> insular to flores, during the 13 kya is before the end of the
> last ice age, and east of the wallace line means they could
> have spread to australia. I don't think insular dwarfish is a
> good theory unless you can create a barrier between flores and
> eastern austronesia. In which case, I think someone has boo-
> boo'd somewhere on the paleooceanography.

Somewhere someone boo booed on the date. All the Nature docs say *18* kya, at
least one - the NewScientist link - said 13 kya.