Growing Proof Proposes "Hobbits" Were Wiped By Our Ancestor 50,000 Years Back
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It may not yet be sufficient to persuade a jury, but rather convincing proof proposes ancestors of humans wiped out the world's only known populace of hobbits.
A race of 3.5ft tall humans - known as "hobbits" - were using stone tools on the Indonesian island of Flores 50,000 years ago but then mysteriously vanished..
Researchers now believe modern Homo sapiens humans were using fire in the hobbits' cave no less than 41,000 years back.
The discovery of hearths in the Liang Bua cave demonstrates that hobbits and modern humans both occupied the fissure just over 10 000 years of each other.
Scientists are hunting down more information that will remove any remaining plausible excuse present day people may have.
On the off chance that the two species met up at the same place and time it could clarify the hobbits' annihilation.
A global group of scientists uncovered the remaining parts of formerly obscure types of little statured human, Homo floresiensis, in Liang Bua collapse 2003.
Known as "hobbits" after the characters invented by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien, the creatures were originally thought to have lived as recently as 12,000 years ago.
Later specialists dated the bones at somewhere around 190,000 and 60,000-years of age, while the latest hobbit stone tools were thought to be 50,000 years of age.
Despite the fact that they utilized stone apparatuses, there is no confirmation that the hobbits had aced fire. The hearth remnants found in the cave were no doubt left by present day humans, researchers said.
"We now know that the hobbits only survived until around 50,000 years ago at Liang Bua” said Lead researcher Dr Mike Morley, from the University of Wollongong in Australia,
"We also know that modern humans arrived in Southeast Asia and Australia at least 50,000 years ago, and most likely quite a bit earlier.
"This new evidence, which is some of the earliest evidence of modern human activity in south-east Asia, narrows the gap between the two hominin species at the site."
Fossilised remains of even smaller ancestral hobbits that lived on Flores 700,000 years ago have further persuaded specialists that the creatures really were a distinct type of human.
They propose that hobbits evolved from a former type of human, Homo erectus that became abandoned on Flores long ago.
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