Ebu Gogo: tiny, hairy beings from the folklore of Flores, Indonesia. Are they only a story, or a memory of Homo floresiensis, the "hobbit" of Flores? We look at the folklore, the fossils, the hypothesis and the critics.
In 2003, researchers found the skeleton of a small-bodied human relative at Liang Bua cave on Flores. The Nage people of central Flores tell stories of the Ebu Gogo. Anthropologist Gregory Forth asked whether the two could be connected. This video lays out the evidence, what is only a hypothesis, and what would settle the question.
CHAPTERS (approximate; times may be off by a couple of seconds)
0:00 The hook: a small figure on Flores
0:39 The Ebu Gogo folklore
1:25 How the legend ends
2:10 Underground: the Liang Bua skeleton
2:33 Homo floresiensis, the "hobbit"
3:03 Re-dating the bones (2016)
3:19 Life on the island
4:37 Could folklore be a memory?
5:14 The critics' objections
5:36 The time problem
6:08 What else could the stories be?
6:48 What would settle it?
7:07 The honest conclusion
7:47 Two kinds of memory
SOURCES (everything factual in this video comes from these):
- Brown et al. (2004), "A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia"
- Sutikna et al. (2016), "Revised stratigraphy and chronology for Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in Indonesia"
- Gregory Forth (2005), "Hominids, hairy hominoids and the science of humanity"
- Peter Brown, review of Forth's "Between Ape and Human"
- Review of Forth's work on wildmen (IIAS)
- Australian Museum, Homo floresiensis
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