Re: Homo floresiensis

From: Martyn Harrison (nospam_at_spammers.of.the.world.unite)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:15:56 GMT

Apparently on date Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:33:10 -0600, "Tedd Jacobs"
<Jacobs@mail.boisestate.edu> said:

>"Martyn Harrison" wrote...
>> Apparently on date Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:57:10 -0500, Tom McDonald
>>>Per R?nne wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "hobbit" seem to be the every-day name given to the species] had a brain
>>>> at only 1/3 of H. sapiens. I wouldn't call such a species sentient or
>>>
>>>intelligence. I want to read more about the material culture
>>>found associated with H.f. That is going to go some way to
>>>answering the intelligence question.
>>
>> Well, some stuff has been reported here and there, which sounds plausible
>> enough.
>>
>> There's a volcanic ash layer 12,000 years old. Below, but not above it
>
>ref. the reports i've read place the ash above. let me rephrase that,...
>the /media/ reports i have read...

Yeah, that's what I was meaning. The ash is above the remains (which are below
the ash), and may mark the extinction of Hf in a volcanic event, just as it
does the extinction of the pygmy elephants. OTOH, the Komodo lizards survive to
this day and the Hf could have moved on from finishing off the last of the
elephants to prey on lizard instead. Cold blooded lizards ought to be more
susceptible to short term climate changes brought about by an eruption.

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

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