--- In AAT@yahoogroups.com, "Dan G." <dgplexus1@...> wrote:

What would explain the other, nearly identical, mandible? (The LB6 mandible.)
Also the various bones from other individuals, that are consistent with LB1
representing a normal member of her group. Did they all have the same
"disease," that affected every part of the skeleton, or what could explain this,
other than that LB1 was apparently a normal member of her group?

Dan

--- In AAT@yahoogroups.com, "DDeden" <alas_my_loves@> wrote:
>
> The Mousterian in Europe and Levant story is that the same tech was used by
neandertals and then sapiens. Now they're claiming Hs used same tools as
hobbits. Sounds fishy. Compare Japan, the Jomon-Ainu there for 35ka, 12ka made
pottery, then Sinitic Yayoi arrived about 2ka and changed to agriculture but
retained some Jomon culture.
>
> Seems to me hobbits were negritos (similar to Malayan Semang and Philippine
Eta and Andamaners), using rope ladders rather than stairs, to their stilt
houses to avoid common komodo dragons. That one deformed/inbred individual (and
some of family) stayed at or was kept at a cave, possibly viewed as a shaman, by
local Hs negritos is not so unusual. Much easier to comprehend that than an
isolated He tribe with only one skull found.
> -

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