Saturday, July 19, 2008

WEEK 5 : TASK 3 - LITTLE PEOPLE OF FLORES



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3209/01.html
There are many mysterious stories about ancients that lived with elephants and dragons….. Thousands of years ago. Do you believe it? This is also a amazing topic that scientists and archaeologists are researching and to prove that may be true.
Today, between Asia and Australia, near Indonesia, there is a island that is believed that some little ancient people still exist on our planet for ten thousands of years or more. Logical people who have been living here said that they had ever seen hairy people in the forest. There are many archeologists from Australia who come here to discover this phenomenon and find out answers about ancient people that are called Homo Floresiesis or a little of Flores. A new question was made here is how these ancients can get to this island? Archaeologists are trying to puzzle out this question by collecting bones and every tracks that remain over thousands of years. They found out skulls and bones but the results were very surprising that sizes of these skulls and bones are very smaller than people today. Archaeologists explained thousands of years ago, continents stuck together, so when human appeared, they scattered many places and developed various races that differed from appearance, skin color, and culture. When continents separated, many brands of these ancients were isolated in islands. Therefore, their living surroundings were diminished in size, in order to be able to survive, they also had to reduce their body sizes to fit with their living environments. As a result, they became smaller many times than us today. They said animals which lived in that time were also smaller many time than our animals today, follow the way that people human became smaller to keep balance the life. Although those are still archaeologists’ inferences, they are trying to keep track these Homo Floresiesis to find out mysteries about them. Whether they still live? Nobody knows. One day in the future, perhaps those creatures will be showed to us.

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