All,
Here's the headline from the Oct. 28, 2004 New York Times science section. New Species Revealed: Tiny Cousin of Humans.
Okay, that alone is worth its weight in gold for a d20 Modern game that has halflings. But, it gets better. Here are the first two paragraphs of the story.
"Once upon a time, but not so long ago, on a tropical island midway between Asia and Australia, there lived a race of little people, whose adults stood just three and a half feet high. Despite their stature, they were mighty hunters. They made stone tools with which they speared giant rats, clubbed sleeping dragons and hunted the packs of pygmy elephants that roamed their lost world.
Strangest of all, this is no fable. Skeletons of these miniature people have been excavated from a limestone cave on Flores, an island 370 miles east of Bali, by a team of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists. Reporting their find in today's issue of Nature, they assign the people to a new human species, Homo floresiensis. "
The rest of the article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/science/28tiny.html
(You need to be registered to the NYTimes; registration is free.)
Dave
Here's the headline from the Oct. 28, 2004 New York Times science section. New Species Revealed: Tiny Cousin of Humans.
Okay, that alone is worth its weight in gold for a d20 Modern game that has halflings. But, it gets better. Here are the first two paragraphs of the story.
"Once upon a time, but not so long ago, on a tropical island midway between Asia and Australia, there lived a race of little people, whose adults stood just three and a half feet high. Despite their stature, they were mighty hunters. They made stone tools with which they speared giant rats, clubbed sleeping dragons and hunted the packs of pygmy elephants that roamed their lost world.
Strangest of all, this is no fable. Skeletons of these miniature people have been excavated from a limestone cave on Flores, an island 370 miles east of Bali, by a team of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists. Reporting their find in today's issue of Nature, they assign the people to a new human species, Homo floresiensis. "
The rest of the article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/science/28tiny.html
(You need to be registered to the NYTimes; registration is free.)
Dave
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