Homo floresiensis

From: Martyn Harrison (nospam_at_spammers.of.the.world.unite)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:36:11 GMT

Fascinating discovery as per subject.

Two items of significance, for me, the fact that there could still be another
intelligent species sharing the planet, obviously.

The other, is to do with the reporting that they must have employed ships to
get to Flores. I'm not so sure, there is a far amount of island hopping
required but the longest stretch of open water, Lombok from Bali, looks to be
about 13 miles. This would seem to be feasible with a suitable current and just
a log or similar.

Either way, it's impressive if there were technology using humans capable of
crossing even short stretches of sea a million years ago, which is apparently
being touted as the likely arrival date on Flores.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/sa/SAIRC/1997/50.html