The hobbit

The newly discovered bone fossils have helped researchers draw the exact portrait of a dwarf called 'Hobbit', as well as their origins and behavior.

New pieces of bone thought of Homo floresiensis, also called hobbits, have contributed to revealing the small members of the limb, mentioned in the film that is storming the screens all over the world. gender. The latest discovery, published in the Human Evolution magazine, is a piece of wrist bone, which was excavated at the island of Flores in Indonesia. Because they are almost identical to other bone fossils believed to be hobbits, also found in the same area, this is a clear evidence to counter the claims that deny the existence of H.floresiensis people.

"The tiny human race on Flores Island is not just modern people with illnesses, so it shrinks," said Caley Orr, the leader of the Midwestern University (USA). Instead, he claimed they were the newly discovered breed, with an average height of about 106cm, perfectly suited for the nickname 'Hobbit'. American experts say the newcomers look like modern people in many ways, for example, they walk on two feet, have small fangs, and live in the typical cave style. 'Stone tools and traces of fire are found inside the cave, along with the rest of the animal flesh, like Stegodon (an extinct elephant relative), showing that meat is part of At that time, ' according to Orr expert.

A scene from the movie Hobbit 2012 version

However, Orr and his colleagues also point out differences between hobbits and modern people. Dwarves have arms longer than legs, so their appearance is more like a gibbon than a person. The skull has no cheekbones, so their face is oval, and the forehead is flattened. Small brain size, making Hobbit's intelligence only with chimpanzees. Even more impressive, their feet are really long compared to their feet, like the image of a hobbit in movies. The hobbit's wrists are similar to the original relatives of modern people, like the male gibbons, but the potential candidate for their ancestors is Homo erectus.

It is possible that a group of H.erectus people are lost in the island and dwarfed over time. Orr experts explained that it sometimes happens in organisms with large body sizes, to ensure they can adapt to a limited environment on the desert island. However, there is still an unanswered question, the upright people seem more modern than the dwarves, so experts are trying to find more evidence that there is a connection between the two. Besides, another problem was raised, whether the hobbits had ever mated with modern humans, like the case of the Neanderthals, and reflected on the genetic structure of modern humans. However, the current conditions do not allow DNA extraction from the hobbit bones, extinct from the Renewal period (the period from 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago).

Good news for movie fans about Hobbit, the group of Orr experts who continue to work on hobbit research, promising to publish more reports about this interesting person in the near future.