Who Were the Hobbits?

While excavating Liang Bua canve in Indonesia, Archaeologists made an astounding discovery. They found the skeleton of a fully grown man who stood no taller then a odern mfour-year- old child. This person would have had a small primitive brain and body and lived between 38,000 - 12,000 million years ago. They called this species the hobbit. Finding a skeleton is always eventful, but in this case, the one find had millions of scientists stumped. The hobbits would have lived around the time of Homo Erectus, but their primitive tools and brains showed that they were definitly not as advanced. Scientists have developed many theory's about why the hobbits were so short. One theory is that they were a branch of Homo erectus. But the primitive brains and body structure cancel out this theory. Another guess is that They suffered a dwarfing disease. Although Studies from the skeletal remains prove that there was nothing wrong with them. A likely theory is that the hobbits suffered something called Island Dwarfism. Island Dwarfism occurs on islands where there are limited resources. This stunts the growth of the organisms that inhabit the island. Whatever the reason was, that didn't stop the hobbits success. Hobbits made simple stone tools and even though they were short, they were probably about 5 times the size of an average man. Even today the story of the Hobbits continues to amaze us.