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Hobbit Man and Folk Tales
About those recent stories about Hobbit Man (Homo floresienses). They were discovered beneath a 12,000 year old lava layer; yet there were folk tales circulating about them even today. If that was their last habitat, it means that the folk tales survived by oral tradition alone for 7,000+ years, until writing systems had a chance to help, and survived without significant change.
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[nq:1]About those recent stories about Hobbit Man (**** floresienses). They were discovered beneath a 12,000 year old lava layer; yet ... [/nq] Or (as you may be suggesting), it's a natural thing for humans to make up stories about little people, and when they dig up some small hominids from thousands of years ago, then there's an opportunity for another story about little people.
- [nq:1]About those recent stories about Hobbit Man (**** floresienses).
- They were discovered beneath a 12,000 year old lava layer; yet ...
- [/nq] Or (as you may be suggesting), it's a natural thing for humans to make up stories about little people, and when they dig up some small hominids from thousands of years ago, then there's an opportunity for another story about little people.
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[nq:1]About those recent stories about Hobbit Man (**** floresienses). They were discovered beneath a 12,000 year old lava layer; yet ... by oral tradition alone for 7,000+ years, until writing systems had a chance to help, and survived without significant change.[/nq]
Or (as you may be suggesting), it's a natural thing for humans to make up stories about little people, and when they dig up so
Or (as you may be suggesting), it's a natural thing for humans to make up stories about little people, and when they dig up so
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[nq:2]About those recent stories about Hobbit Man (**** floresienses). They ... had a chance to help, and survived without significant change.[/nq]
[nq:1]Or (as you may be suggesting), it's a natural thing for humans to make up stories about little people, and when they dig up some small hominids from thousands of years ago, then there's an opportunity for another story about little people.[/n
[nq:1]Or (as you may be suggesting), it's a natural thing for humans to make up stories about little people, and when they dig up some small hominids from thousands of years ago, then there's an opportunity for another story about little people.[/n
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[nq:2]About those recent stories about Hobbit Man (**** floresienses). They ... had a chance to help, and survived without significant change.[/nq]
[nq:1]Or (as you may be suggesting), it's a natural thing for humans to make up stories about little people, and when they dig up some small hominids from thousands of years ago, then there's an opportunity for another story about little people.[/n
[nq:1]Or (as you may be suggesting), it's a natural thing for humans to make up stories about little people, and when they dig up some small hominids from thousands of years ago, then there's an opportunity for another story about little people.[/n
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[nq:1]Subject: Re: Hobbit Man and Folk Tales From: "Mark Barratt" But Henry Gee, senior editor at Nature magazine, goes further. ... forest of Indonesia. ** They shouldn't be hard to find, though - we just have to look for the smoke-rings.[/nq]
Judging by the photograph gallery, we might have several of them in this group.
Peasemarch*
*resolutely unbearded.
Judging by the photograph gallery, we might have several of them in this group.
Peasemarch*
*resolutely unbearded.
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[nq:1]About those recent stories about Hobbit Man (**** floresienses). They were discovered beneath a 12,000 year old lava layer; yet ... by oral tradition alone for 7,000+ years, until writing systems had a chance to help, and survived without significant change.[/nq]
A book on oral history described folk tales circulating recently somewhere in North Africa about headless people or some such.
A book on oral history described folk tales circulating recently somewhere in North Africa about headless people or some such.
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[nq:2]Subject: Re: Hobbit Man and Folk Tales From: "Mark Barratt" ... though - we just have to look for the smoke-rings.[/nq]
[nq:1]Judging by the photograph gallery, we might have several of them in this group.[/nq]
Eh? Hobbits are (for the most part) beardless. Indeed, this is some evidence that the peculiar fashionableness of beards in present-day Britain is really a very recent phenome
[nq:1]Judging by the photograph gallery, we might have several of them in this group.[/nq]
Eh? Hobbits are (for the most part) beardless. Indeed, this is some evidence that the peculiar fashionableness of beards in present-day Britain is really a very recent phenome
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[nq:2]About those recent stories about Hobbit Man (**** floresienses). They ... had a chance to help, and survived without significant change.[/nq]
[nq:1]A book on oral history described folk tales circulating recentlysomewhere in North Africa about headless people or some such. The ... same region about 2500 yearsago. But perhaps those North African people had read Herodotus and were havingth
[nq:1]A book on oral history described folk tales circulating recentlysomewhere in North Africa about headless people or some such. The ... same region about 2500 yearsago. But perhaps those North African people had read Herodotus and were havingth
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[nq:1]Eh? Hobbits are (for the most part) beardless. Indeed, this is some evidence that the peculiar fashionableness of beards in ... Matti Lamprhey a couple of generations ago would be a clean-shaven fellow (NTTARWT). You want beards, go with the Dwarves.[/nq]
Much older than that.
The perfectly verified law about it is:
"Whenever England has a queen, men wear beards."
Jan
Much older than that.
The perfectly verified law about it is:
"Whenever England has a queen, men wear beards."
Jan
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[nq:1]There's a theory that the stories of Eden and Dilmun (the Sumerian lost paradise) come from the flooding of what ... Ice Age. See from Smithsonian magazine in 1987. I don't know the current status of this theory.[/nq]
I've heard a similar theory where Noah's flood occurred when the Mediterranean broke through the Bosporus into the Black Sea.
Ray Heindl
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I've heard a similar theory where Noah's flood occurred when the Mediterranean broke through the Bosporus into the Black Sea.
Ray Heindl
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[nq:2]There's a theory that the stories of Eden and Dilmun ... 1987. I don't know the current status of this theory.[/nq]
[nq:1]I've heard a similar theory where Noah's flood occurred when the Mediterranean broke through the Bosporus into the Black Sea. [/nq]
Discredited by now.
The 'Black Sea Flood' never happened,
so the improbabilities of connecting it to Noah
are irrelevant
[nq:1]I've heard a similar theory where Noah's flood occurred when the Mediterranean broke through the Bosporus into the Black Sea. [/nq]
Discredited by now.
The 'Black Sea Flood' never happened,
so the improbabilities of connecting it to Noah
are irrelevant
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