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Who were the Hobbits?

The Hobbits are a group of people who were named Hobbits because they were so small, the average Hobbit is as tall as modern 4 year old. These ancestors were found on the island of Flores in Indonesia. When when scientists first found them they compared Hobbits to Lucy a Australopithicus aferensis who lived 3.5 million years ago these skeletons and fossils were much younger. After doing radiocarbon dating on 8 hobbits historians found out that they lived from 38 to 18 thousand years ago, but some say they were only 12,000 years old. Hobbits had brains the size of a chimps. Historians believed Hobbits went through Island Dwarfing evolution where because of limited sources species become smaller. some historians and scientists even believe Hobbits are a scaled down version of the Homo Erectus. Two really interesting facts historians found out is that even though Hobbits had so small brains they had complex tools only modern humans could have, also Hobbits might heave had really complex social behaviors.