Early excavation research led by Dr. Michael J. Mulwood showed that Homo erectus arrived in loris Island 840,000 years ago. They made this judgment based on primitive stone tools. Homo erectus may have gradually become shorter under the same evolutionary force as the elephants on the island. This pair of Flores adult female bones was discovered in September last year. It was buried in the mud 20 feet deep under the hole of Leopold. The bones didn't turn into fossils. The archaeological team led by Dr. Peter Brown from university of new england identified these bones. This dwarf is similar to Homo erectus. Because it is smaller than modern pygmies, scientists think it is a new species. The age of this skeleton is 6.5438+0.8 million years. The other six bone fragments found in the cave are thought to be between 95,000 and 65,438+300,000 years ago.
Dwarves can use fire and hunt.
Other relics discovered by archaeologists, including the bones of Komodo monitor lizard, as well as the bones of pygmy elephants, giant rats, fish and birds, show the living conditions of Flores. The evidence shows that Flores used fire. In addition, archaeologists have discovered stone tools. They are more exquisite than the stone tools made by Homo erectus. Some people think that modern people arrived in Australia 40 thousand years ago. They may live next door to flores, so they may have made stone tools. But Dr. Muerwood insists that modern humans arrived in flores only 1. 1 10,000 years ago, and they could not have made these tools. Dr. Mulwood believes that Flores can be judged to have cognitive ability according to these stone tools. They must have hunted the dwarf elephant through collective cooperation. Since they can use such complicated tools to hunt in groups, it can be inferred that they must have invented some kind of language. If so, it must be an amazing discovery. Because their structure is completely different from that of modern people, their brain capacity is slightly smaller than that of chimpanzees and similar to that of Pleistocene primates. However, Dr. Frey pointed out that chimpanzees also hunt in groups, but they don't use language.
Have you ever lived next door to a human?
Some people think that this new discovery has rewritten the history of human evolution. This archaeological discovery is amazing because it is very late in time. For a long time, the scientific community has always believed that Homo sapiens, the ancestor of modern people, gradually replaced other Homo erectus on the earth from 6.5438+0.6 million years ago. Homo erectus and Neanderthals in Europe were extinct before the arrival of modern people. It seems that flores didn't go extinct with the volcanic eruption on the island until1.2000 years ago. This discovery shows that the process of human evolution may be more complicated than previously thought, and there may be more branches here. In addition to Homo sapiens, some other races have survived to modern times, and the small brain capacity does not affect the evolution of a race. Flores Jr. has amazing adaptability. Dr. Mulwood believes that flores people in some places have survived and lived to the modern age. According to the legend of Flores residents, these dwarfs lived until the arrival of Dutch merchants in the16th century.
In recent weeks, anthropologists around the world were shocked by the discovery of a Neanderthal skeleton in Indonesia, and immediately began to study whether people who lived on the earth tens of thousands of years ago came from the same source. Jacob, a famous paleontologist in Indonesia, pointed out that the skull fossils found should belong to the same person with rare brain contraction. He said: "All the findings are only preliminary in nature and need to be analyzed in more detail. But according to the fossils I have seen, all the fossils should belong to the same person, which proves that they are not new species. 」
Some members of the research team speculated that Neanderthal dwarves may have lived on the island of loris hundreds of years ago, rather than earlier research that they lived here until 12000 years ago.
Roberts, a member of the Australian research team, pointed out that it was not impossible for some creatures to live in remote corners of some forest areas until hundreds of years ago. Before 2003, no one knew about the existence of these creatures, but now some Neanderthal fossils with a height of less than 1 m have been found, and scientists can continue to look for more evidence on this basis.
I read a book and told many mysteries about the mysterious disappearance. Among them, The Legend of Dwarves attracts me the most. Dwarves refer to Hobbits whose ancestors lived on the remote island of Floss.
Hobbits lived about 1.8 million years ago, but their stature is surprisingly short, only 1 m high, with a brain capacity of 380 ml, which is less than that of modern people 1/3, and their weight is only about 25 kg.
Some people think that Hobbits are not legendary dwarves. They are just physical changes in the process of human evolution to meet the needs of the environment. Because in Africa today, there are people whose height is less than 1.5 meters, that is, pygmies. But the brain capacity of pygmies is not much less than that of modern people, while the brain capacity of hobbits shrinks with height.
The Legend of the Dwarf is still a mystery. Let's wait for its answer!