OK, so "Hobbit" is a horrible nickname, but...

[prosicated]

Dude.
Humans with heads the size of grapefruits.
Living with giant rodents and pygmy elephants.
How ridiculously surreal and Lilliputian does it get?
(Also, how geektastic is that?? Heartening for my post- post-modern graduate studies -- anthropology is still getting done out there!)

Comments

[prosicated.livejournal.com]

I appreciate your LUMPY DEFIANCE, even if it causes me to speak in Zim-voice for a while, and eve if it's slightly inaccurate.
Please, I'm a cultural anthropologist, I can be as soft and wishy-washy as I want...! You're the one who's supposed to have some sort of scientific grounding... *laughs*

[cobaltnine.livejournal.com]

Scientific grounding my ass. I'm taking evol. this term but I'm a *historical archaeologist.* I like my people dead but with notes that they left behind.

My lumpy defiance was mostly in response to me getting sick of seeing it all over my flist. You, is okay. Other people just post it as an interest story and have no background and it annoys me. The first bunch of articles I read gave me no real reason not to lump, but then I read the Nature article and I'm inclined to at least make them a subspecies of H. erectus, maybe, fine. Fine, make them a species. But I want to see the other island-bound freaky species (so does the author of the article,) before I jump to conclusions. And why don't we subspecies hominids? The thing is, they're not 'early man' at all and that's what [lay]people seem to be implying or excited about. This whole 'island of small things cut off from the world' annoys me too, since it's not that isolated. I mean, Rapa Nui, yes, that's isolated, but this is in a chain.

( I tried to reply from e-mail, but it didn't look like it worked. Sorry if this shows up twice.)