re: #125 OldLineTexan

They must’ve gone to Ireland as well.

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Don’t be so sure they didn’t.

If the researchers are correct, then the Flores people diverged from the “main” branch of human evolution at least 1.5 million years ago. That means that this species survived in parallel with other hominids as the latter evolved into Homo sapiens.

How far did they disperse? Did their survival depend on finding isolated places like islands in which they didn’t have to compete with larger, stronger hominids?

Why wouldn’t it be possible that a branch of that species migrated northward to Europe just as they migrated eastward to Asia? Why couldn’t they have survived in Ireland until the first coming of Homo sapiens to that island?

The Floriensis fossils prove that ‘little people’ existed right up to the time of the ascendancy of Homo sapiens sapiens. Seems perfectly plausible that the various legends of little people might thus have a basis in fact.