Or "halflings", if you ever played "Dungeons and Dragons".
It seems they've found more than bones in Indonesia:
http://www.rense.com/general64/hobb.htm
(Excerpt below.)
Bob Dog
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service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers
now crash more than twice each day."
- New York Times, 25 July 2003, p.C2.
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Pygmy Tribe Found Near Home Of Hobbits
Herald Sun - Australia
4-30-5
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Kompas daily reported yesterday that the pygmy community had been
found during an April 18-24 expedition in the village of
Rampapasa, about 1km from the village of Liang Bua, where the
species called Homo floresiensis was found.
The newspaper quoted Koeshardjono, a biologist who discovered the
pygmy village, saying 77 families had been found there.
Teuku Jacob, a professor at Gadjah Mada University, who led the
human anthropology research team, said 80 per cent of the
Rampapasa villagers were small, with most male adults under 145cm
[4'-8"] and female adults about 135cm [4'-5"].
"The presence of the pygmy people there is both very interesting
and surprising," Prof Jacob said. "For years, scientists from all
over the world could only see their traces. Now we could find them
living in a society.
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