Science and Shamanism combine in the unusual discovery of our Lady of Flores aka the Hobbit.
The people of Flores follow an unusual mix of Catholicism and ancestor worship. Sacrificing chickens and reading their entrails was all in a day's work for the archaeologists to ensure their digs proceeded smoothly, with the invaluable help of local villagers.
Catholicism fits well with Ancestor Worship since both deal with veneration of the dead over the living. And Christianity and Ancestor Worship arise from guilt over murder.Morwood and van Oosterzee now believe our species, modern humans, killed the hobbits about 12,000 years ago.
Another dirty little secret revealed? So the humans occupying the area having race memories realize them through religion.
This was the time of the Stone Age, and for the scientists to assume this is an obvious modernist bias. Like this....
No final word ... the disputed picture of a male hobbit,
which became the defining image of the new species.
Disputed is right this is a male and so far the archaeological remains found are female, hence our Lady of Flores. This is her undisputed skull.
Homo floresiensis (Liang Bua Cave, Indonesia)
and a modern human skull
And here is the result of the female skull being fleshed out...
But at least we now accept that they are a different species of humans. That was still being contested last fall.
And like the Neanderthals before them, they were wiped out by colonizers say the scientists. Imperialism and War are the natural outcome of Homo Sapiens need to dominate and colonize.
The hobbit pre-dates modern peoples in the region. Though race memory may create a zeitgeist in the wilderness, a hint, a legend, a myth of people who came before. The little people of legend. This is what the shaman experiences in their trance state. It is after all one of our oldest cross cultural beliefs.
This just another cultural/historical conjecture by scientists, based on little evidence and theorizing, speculating, hypothesizing, a priori on looking backwards from todays culture of war and Imperialism. After all they are still contesting the evidence that Our Lady of Flores is a different species.
So this assumption is contestable as well. The fact that humans and our hominid relatives existed side by side does not mean that we killed them off. There is just as much evidence for mutual co-existence, as Kropotkin asserts in his work Mutual Aid, and assimilation, as there is that we wiped out Neandertal.
It appears that our closest living relatives in the primate world are now also discovering tool making , and experiencing their own Primate Stone Age,including the making of spears. Chimps using spears to hunt bushbabiesAnd like our Lady of Flores, the female of the species stands out in this as well.
This new information on chimpanzee tool use has important implications for the evolution of tool use and construction for hunting in the earliest hominids, especially given our observations that females and immature chimpanzees exhibited this behavior more frequently than adult males.
Mistaking tool use for weapons use has been a common problem amongst anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of religion.
A case in point is William Irwin Thompson's expose of an ancient neolithic shaman's (male) warrior spear which he speculates is not, but is actually a woman shamans lunar calendar calculated on menstrual cycles and womens collective dream time.
Pruetz noted that male chimps never used the spears. She believes the males use their greater strength and size to grab food and kill prey more easily, so the females must come up with other methods.
And to defend themselves and their babies from more aggressive males.
Maria Gimbutas suggests that during the period of Our Lady of Flores and after there was a long period of matriarchal cultural development, which was not based on later armed male nomadic warfare, but settled peaceful civilizing of the world.
There remains no scientific evidence that humans wiped out Our Lady of Flores, they could have assimilated or have been wiped out by disease, lack of food, natural disasters, etc.
It is idle speculation like this that moves beyond science into science fiction. Just like 2001 a Space Odyssey.
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