Tales Of Brave Ulysses

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  Afarensis: Small Bodied Humans From Palau
  
  
  (tags: palau micronesia anthropology biology)
  
  


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  PLoS ONE: Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia
  
  
  a palauan hobbit! just like the ones from indonesia! holy smokes, will duendes be next?
  
  
  (tags: palau micronesia anthropology biology)
  
  

This one is just too cool to pass up. After evidence of small bodied humans appeared in Indonesia a few years ago, I got a series of comments regarding duendes, the mythical little people on Guam. I discounted them at first, but now little people just got a whole lot closer.
Anthropologists uncovered two caves in the Rock Islands of Palau with the remains of up to up to 25 people, all of which are of a comparable size with homo floresiensis from Indonesia. Yes, that’s right, little people in Micronesia. Holy taotaomona batman. Palau is sure a lot closer to Guam than Indonesia, which raises the probability that Guam had it’s own population of little people at some point in the past. Freaky deaky dude.

Check out this woman doing a load of fake accents, one after another:

This really would have been better if she said “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father. Prepare to die.”