According to the report of Nature on June 27th, 2004 10, archaeologists recently discovered a small race in Indonesia, which is only about one meter tall. The brain of this small race is only one third as big as that of normal people. Scientists believe that they still existed in this area at least 1.8 million years ago.
Flores people's new species discovery conference was held in Sydney, Australia on 28th. Mike Morwood, an associate professor of Australian Museum, gave a speech at the conference.
According to the report, PeterBrown, an archaeologist from the University of Australia, is the head of the project. He said that he was surprised when he saw these archaeological samples. According to the analysis of scientists, these races have a history of at least 70,000 to 80,000 years.
Scientific American magazine thinks this is the biggest discovery of archaeology in a century. According to the magazine and Nature website, not only are there different types of human beings, but archaeologists have also discovered animals such as elephant bones and giant cows.
An article on the website of Nature magazine said that the discovery of ethnic minorities forced people to rethink some issues. For example, in Malay legends, there are stories about villains. Scientists never take it seriously. According to the BBC website reported on September 8, 2004, some footprints and hairs found in Indonesia were strictly identified as not belonging to any known creatures, and may have been left by a small race. The existence of villains is also recorded in Kyle's Travels in Asia. According to the BBC, in Indonesia, even before 100 years ago, people saw the existence of little people.
-Micro-world
Last year, the cable TV Discovery Channel showed a computer-animated dinosaur movie. In one episode, a volcanic eruption destroyed a big island, and most of the dinosaurs and other animals on the island died. A small carnivorous dinosaur survived and went to another smaller island. He found that the dinosaurs and other animals there looked exactly like the animals on the island where he once lived, but they were all very small-he found himself in a miniature world: the once cruel dinosaur was now almost as big as himself. After a brave fight, he was once bullied and now he has become the overlord.
This is not only a story but also a factual basis. Scientists have found ancient animals of the same period in many different places, and the only difference between them is size. Sometimes dinosaur species found in one place will be found in other places, but the size difference is 3 or 4 times. This makes scientists speculate on the possibility of the existence of a "miniature world".
As for the "dwarves" in Indonesia, some scientists suspect that some islands may be limited by natural conditions and resources, resulting in smaller creatures of the same type there. But this does not seem to be the final explanation, because there are many counterexamples.
If there is a miniature world, I wonder if the Hobbits and their elephants are our miniature versions. However, maybe we used to be a miniature version of the big species world?
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