DIALOGUE AND DISCUSSION ON EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT AND RACE
Homo floresiensis ("Flores Man", nicknamed "hobbit" and "Flo") is a possible species, now extinct, in the genus Homo. The remains were discovered in 2003 on the island of Flores in Indonesia. Partial skeletons of nine individuals have been recovered, including one complete cranium (skull).[1][2] These remains have been the subject of intense research to determine whether they represent a species distinct from modern humans, and the progress of this scientific controversy has been closely followed by the news media at large. This hominin is remarkable for its small body and brain and for its survival until relatively recent times (possibly as recently as 12,000 years ago).[3] Recovered alongside the skeletal remains were stone tools from archaeological horizons ranging from 94,000 to 13,000 years ago.
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We may as well start to look at different groups of people if we are going to learn something about what a race is and is NOT. Here is one that one might look into. http://www.scribd.com/doc/5007776/Marcel-Griaule-The-Dogon
These findings were resurrected in Tennessee after the findings of Homo floresiensis in Indonesia.
An excerpt from Judge John Haywood's book on Tennessee history written circa 1820:
"A number of small skeletons were discovered a few miles from Sparta, Tennessee, in White County, an account of which was given by a Mr. Lane. The graves were about two feet in length, fourteen inches broad, and sixteen inches deep. These extend promiscuously throughout the farm of Mr. Lane, and in a large and closely connected burying-ground in the vicinity; there were others of the same description four miles south of Sparta, and it is said that hundreds of them might be found throughout the locality…From the great number of small graves found here, says Mr. Lane, all of the same description and, among them all, but one being of a large size, it seems to indicate that there was, in ancient times, a race of people whose height was from two feet ten to three feet."
This is a small abstract that must be placed in the proper place so that it will help the picture to come into view.
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The Copts are the native Christians of Egypt and according to Wikipedia, the word Copt from an Arabic collective of words. The Coptic word is in turn an adaptation of the Greek Αἰγύπτιος Aigýptios "Egyptian" ultimately related to Caphtor. In the bible, the people of Caphtor are called Caphtorites (or Caphtorim) and are named as a division of the ancient Egyptians.
The name Caphtor is identical to the Biblical Hebrew word for a knob-like structure. According to the reference, The Midrash Rabbah on Genesis 37:5, the "Caphtorim were dwarfs" "Kaftor [Hebrew: כפתור] in Hebrew is a button, and he probably interprets 'Caphtorim' as meaning button-like — little and rotund people."
This is the way, it calls for small amounts of data stored in the correct way, and then, BANG, the light comes on!!!
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The Saisiyat people hold a festival in honor of the Ta'ai called the Pas-ta'ai, ritual to the short people. The festival is held on a full moon around the 15th day of the 10th lunar month every two years, with a particularly large event held every 10 years. The next regular festival will be held this year, in 2014, with the big one to be held in 2016.
It just so happens that I have been (today) involved with study that has me looking at the Little People of the planet.
I think that we are moving on the same wave (F).
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The Vazimba (Malagasy [vaˈʒimbə̥]), according to popular belief, were the first inhabitants of Madagascar. The Vazimba are generally described as smaller in stature than the average person.
Malagasy traditions insist that a small, dark-skinned people, the Vazimba [=Mikea], were already present on the island. The Mikea were hunter-gatherers, and indeed groups with this name still exist.
The Mikea are a group of Malagasy-speaking horticulturalists and foragers who are often described as the hunter-gatherers of Madagascar. They inhabit the Mikea Forest, a patch of mixed spiny forest and dry deciduous forest along the coast of southwestern Madagascar.
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