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Between Ape and Human - An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid (Hardcover)
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Between Ape and Human - An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R446
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A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island,
their place on the evolutionary spectrum-and whether or not they
still survive. While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian
island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across people
talking about half-apelike, half-humanlike creatures that once
lived in a cave on the slopes of a nearby volcano. Over the years
he continued to record what locals had to say about these mystery
hominoids while searching for ways to explain them as imaginary
symbols of the wild or other cultural representations. Then along
came the 'hobbit'. In 2003, several skeletons of a small-statured
early human species alongside stone tools and animal remains were
excavated in a cave in western Flores. Named Homo floresiensis,
this ancient hominin was initially believed to have lived until as
recently as 12,000 years ago-possibly overlapping with the
appearance of Homo sapiens on Flores. In view of this timing and
the striking resemblance of floresiensis to the mystery creatures
described by the islanders, Forth began to think about the
creatures as possibly reflecting a real species, either now extinct
but retained in 'cultural memory' or even still surviving. He began
to investigate reports from the Lio region of the island where
locals described 'ape-men' as still living. Dozens claimed to have
even seen them. In Between Ape and Human, we follow Forth on the
trail of this mystery hominoid, and the space they occupy in
islanders' culture as both natural creatures and as supernatural
beings. In a narrative filled with adventure, Lio culture and
language, zoology and natural history, Forth comes to a startling
and controversial conclusion. Unique, important, and
thought-provoking, this book will appeal to anyone interested in
human evolution, the survival of species (including our own) and
how humans might relate to 'not-quite-human' animals. Between Ape
and Human is essential reading for all those interested in
cryptozoology, and it is the only firsthand investigation by a
leading anthropologist into the possible survival of a primitive
species of human into recent times-and its coexistence with modern
humans.
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