Re: Hobbits, Austronesians, and Creoles

>From: Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Hobbits, Austronesians, and Creoles
>Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:10:33 +0100
>
>Quoting Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>:
>
>
> > The whole Hobbit thing is truly fascinating, but I wish everyone would
>sit
> > back, take a deep breath, and wait for more research to develop. (Is it
> > possible, for ex., to extract DNA from bones that old??)
>
>DNA has been extracted from Neanderthal bones well older than the
>floresiensis
>bones, but Flores's climate is rather more hostile to DNA than Europe's, so
>is
>far from sure there's anything left to extract.
likely true.

on the other hand, people used to think that humans couldn't be mummified in
a humid enviroment......and then we find some in the Philipines(sp).

just a thought.


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>                                                         Andreas