Articles for tag: ancient human species, anthropological mysteries, Channel Islands dwarfs, early human history, North American archaeology

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California’s “Channel Islands Dwarfs”: The Lost Human Species of America?

Suhail Ahmed

  Rumors travel fast across water, and few places inspire wilder speculation than the wind-scoured Channel Islands off Southern California. For years, whispers have circulated about tiny people – dwarfs – once living here, the American echo of the Indonesian “hobbits.” The mystery is potent because the islands truly did breed smallness: mammoths shrank to ...