> Larry Lyons wrote: > > Not so sure about that. What the common theory now is that they are > the result of island dwarfism. That would imply that they were very > limited geographically - possibly confined to at the most a few > islands. They'd have to be much more widespread for there to have been > an impact on mythology. > > True, in the NOVA episode I thought they had a brief segment about a > possibly related find from somewhere Middle Eastern/Russian step if my > > sleep deprived memory is not mixing things up.
I would expect that the source would be Africa and African pygmies. In the Sassinid empire of persia the emperors had pygmy slaves. But you may be right. the find was in Georgia. Here's the PBS Nova episode. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hobbit/ And the link to the show's transcript: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3515_hobbit.html So who knows. That part of the world is just opening up to paleontology and anthropology, so there may be all sorts of significant finds in the near future. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296882 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
