Comments on: The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/dwarfs-haliburton/ for Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and More Sat, 25 May 2013 04:44:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: cryptidsrus http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/dwarfs-haliburton/comment-page-1/#comment-60670 cryptidsrus Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:28:31 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=24656#comment-60670 Great post, Loren.

As Always.

Coelacanth1938: You have a point there. :)

]]> By: coelacanth1938 http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/dwarfs-haliburton/comment-page-1/#comment-60656 coelacanth1938 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:27:56 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=24656#comment-60656 Why are we always looking for the biggest creatures?

]]> By: Bishop http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/dwarfs-haliburton/comment-page-1/#comment-60649 Bishop Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:28:30 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=24656#comment-60649 Stories of dwarf humanlike creatures are pretty universal. One has to wonder if the Flores Hobbits weren’t part of a Homo Erectus type expansion that left few fossils. People don’t realize how rare fossils are. Few Homo Erectus fossils have been found outside of Africa even though they spread through China into Indonesia. A lot of species are known by one or two fossils and new species are found all the time. Even on Flores few Hobbits were found inspite of them being there for at least 80,000 to 400,000 years. If they mostly kept to the shores during the expansion then all their old territory would be underwater. The old stories all indicated that the little people lived apart from humans so they kept to areas people didn’t frequent. They were never numerous if they existed but there seemed to be pockets of them from Europe into Asia and even as far as the Americas so they might have crossed the land bridge or been part of an earlier migration. They seem to be extinct now but isolated groups appear to have lived until recent times. Most of them might not have been related to the Flores Hobbits and may have been yet another branch group. I think a lot of the stories are simply old legends so they may not have been that wide spread. Point being the stories in Hawaii may have been remembered from a time before they Left Asia. The same with stories in the Americas. All the stories may have spread from a few pockets in eastern Asia and Europe. Oral histories often go back thousands of years. That could explain the stories on Flores but 14,000 years is a long time and the stories talk about a few generations back. Oral histories can potentially go back tens of thousands of years. Australian aborigines legends talk about the dream time which is thought to be when they first came to Australia as much as 80,000 years ago. One thing to always consider. The vast majority of mythical cities have already been found. Several of the remaining may have been found but not formally identified. Why is this important? Most legends seem to be based in fact. The facts are some times not as impressive like Unicorns being Indian Rhinos but there’s still a grain of truth in even the most outrageous legends. The little people may have simply been a way to explain dwarfism which would be somewhat common in small inbred populations or it could be fragments of old stories from a time when there was another group of primates. Knowing that Hobbits existed means they came from somewhere and the fact that they made it to Flores means they were at one time fairly wide spread. Where were the rest of them and when did they die out? We already know they existed.

]]> By: eireman http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/dwarfs-haliburton/comment-page-1/#comment-60647 eireman Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:13:06 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=24656#comment-60647 I was in Morocco just this past April. If I’d known about such stories, I might have done a little digging into the legend.

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