Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia

Lee R. Berger; Steven E. Churchill; Bonita De Klerk; Rhonda L. Quinn

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001780

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Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia

Lee R. Berger ,

* E-mail: Lee.Berger@wits.ac.za

Affiliation Institute for Human Origins and the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontology, School of GeoSciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Steven E. Churchill,

Affiliation Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Bonita De Klerk,

Affiliation Institute for Human Origins and the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontology, School of GeoSciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Rhonda L. Quinn

Affiliation Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
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Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia

Lee R. Berger,
Steven E. Churchill,
Bonita De Klerk,
Rhonda L. Quinn

Published: March 12, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001780

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Island people lore

Posted by Namwarki on 15 Mar 2008 at 03:40 GMT

The tiny people are part of many island cultures, from tatamonas in the Marianas to Menehune in Hawaii. I have found the knowledgable locals to be extremely tight lipped when discussing their knowledge of these as they are usually ridiculed, or dismissed as myths. Never the less, there has been knowledge of these people passed down for generations.

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