The culprit has destroyed the clan 'Hobbit' myth is a modern man

The emergence of humans has made the ancient "Hobbit" dwarf race no longer available.

For the fans of "The Lord of the Rings" series, the hobbit name is nothing strange. It is the legendary little race, which plays an important role throughout the story.

But few people know that Hobbit is also the name of a real dwarf race. It is Homo floresiensis , with a height of less than 1 meter and a small brain of the size of modern chimpanzees today. And of course, this tribe has been extinct for a long time.

Hobbit in the film and H. floresiensis in real life (a reconstructed from science).

The trace of H. floresiensis was found at Liang Bua Cave on the island of Flores in Indonesia in 1965, but was published in reports in 2004. It is known that every creature on the island seems to be affected. of the phenomenon of . dwarfism. Not only humans, but there are also tiny elephants.

In the past, people thought that hobbits suddenly disappeared 13,000 years ago. By 2016, the evidence suggests that the time when H. floresiensis disappeared 50,000 years ago, coinciding with the period when modern humans appeared, and from that, the hypothesis that humans today destroyed race. considered this legend.

And according to a recent study published in Human Evolution, the cause of the extinction of hobbits about 50,000 years ago was a trio of disasters, including people.

Liang Bua Cave - a place to find traces of hobbits.

At this stage, the island's large mammals also die slowly, including the " dwarf elephant" only the size of a cow, two large bird species like vultures, and Komodo dragons.

"The reason why 5 species (including hobbits) also disappeared is really remarkable" - Thomas Sutikna from Wollongong University (Australia) said. ",, and the appearance of the very cause".

To get this result, experts tested more than 284,000 individuals, and 10,000 pieces of stone tools in this area. The soil here shows that there was a volcanic eruption very strong about 50,000 years ago, emitting an extremely hot gas and rock, like the one that caused the Pompeii disaster in Greece.

According to Sutikna, the eruption may have killed many H. floresiensis people but not enough to cause them to die. Because the ecosystem has quickly recovered after only a few decades.

Another reason is that the entire ecosystem here has changed dramatically . That change coincides with the time when modern Homo sapien came here. And with so many changes, the Hobbit's extinction story is inevitable.

H. floresiensis people often make volcanic stone objects, while modern people prefer to use slate. Yet the shale items that appeared during this period had two possibilities: one was that H. floresiensis had left the island and returned with new items, and the other two modern humans brought them.

If the second line is correct, modern people are more likely to have hunted all four of the largest animals here to the point of extinction, or must . leave the country as Komodo dragons. As for hobbits, when there is no food, plus a volcanic disaster, they die slowly, permanently disappearing on the world history map.