BigRob Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 Maybe Tolkien knew something we don't...... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3948165.stm Link to comment
Fallen_Demon Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 maybe, but looking it the picture his artists didn't. Although it is intresting, considering the mythological refrences. Link to comment
julwise Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 Wow, that's pretty amazing. As an anthropology fan, I am intrigued. Link to comment
Smoketest Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 Heh, FoxNews called them dwarves. (Take that, Korgan!) The find itself is interesting, assuming its not an elaborate hoax. The assumptions are typical. Maybe they'll get some DNA to test. I'm interested in the results. Link to comment
Mahault Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 When you think about it, everything we know is just a different shade of wrong. Link to comment
Andyr Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 I saw that on the news - though, being in Indonesia and over 12,000 years ago I am not sure how much it'll have contributed to European mythology. Link to comment
Rain Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 I saw that on the news - though, being in Indonesia and over 12,000 years ago I am not sure how much it'll have contributed to European mythology. I don't know - in Europe there are various legends and folk tales of "the little people" which have been described in a similar fashion.. It could be there these are simply one branch that have been discovered. Link to comment
Andyr Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Yes, my point was that the time frame (12,000 years ago or more, when I don't think there was much in the way of civilisation anywhere) and the distance (Indonesia, so, a long way away) make it in my view unlikely. Link to comment
BigRob Posted October 29, 2004 Author Share Posted October 29, 2004 It could be a folk memory from very early times, when our ancestors shared the world with other human species. It's only been relatively recently that writing has become the main way we record information and we all know how stories change with the telling.... purple monkey dishwasher. Link to comment
Fallen_Demon Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 true, but andyr's point still makes sense, although i suppose the stories could have reached that far in time. Although now that i think about it i remember hearing a different , less universal origion for british dwarven legend, but i'm not at all sure of the validaty Link to comment
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